Re: The COHERENT Operating System

In article <uu2ob8$3bcot$2@dont-email.me>, Rich  <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:

On 2024-03-28, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:23:58 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:
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... but the Linux juggernaut got too much for MWC :(

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I wonder how you could call a rag-tag bunch of volunteers a
“juggernaut” ...

 
One could argue that Linux ate commercial *nix's lunch. 

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Linux (free of cost) plus the rather rapid performance increases of the
Intel x86 arch over those years were what ate commerical Unix's lunch. 
When one could buy a commodity x86 system for a couple grand, which had
more compute performance than a five or six figure unix workstation,
and get 'Unix' (Linux) on the x86 for free, the commerical unix
workstation vendors no longer had a market they could sell into.
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One, without the other, would not have had the same devastating effect
on the unix workstation market.

I remember vividly back in the mid-late 90's a sysadmin I knew
showing me a COTS PC running Linux; nothing I hadn't seen before
but he made an offhand comment that blew me away: "Yeah, it's
about half the speed of a SPARCstation-whatever, but a quarter
of the cost."

That's when I knew Linux on x86 had won.

- Dan C.