Sujet : Re: The COHERENT Operating System
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 29. Mar 2024, 04:15:49
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On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:31:53 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:
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 ...
BSDs could run on those, too. And Sun and other Unix vendors did bring out
machines based on x86 hardware.
So what was different about Linux? It seemed to attract a whole pool of
smart folks with creative new ideas, in a way that no other platform of
the time, open source or not, could match.
The COHERENT Operating System
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