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On Sun, 26 May 2024 23:22:11 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
This is how the “Unix workstations” of yore worked. They were expensive
back then. So Windows NT “Workstation” came along, at a cut-down price,
and also cut-down functionality, but the customers didn’t notice --
then.
And then life became more difficult... Our clients were running RS/6000
servers and workstations. I can't remember the versions after all these
years but when IBM released the patches for Y2K they couldn't be applied
to the older hardware. Looking at the cost for just a RS/6000
workstation suddenly made switching to Windows very attractive.
Maybe in a parallel universe if Linux in 2000 was what it is in 2024 it
would have been a different story.
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