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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: The Death of x86 Arch. ?
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- References: <1gqadqINN26v@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <1992Dec17.195557.1989@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Dec18.231441.26644@infonode.ingr.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:54:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.231441.26644@infonode.ingr.com> drudetb@infonode.ingr.com (Ted B. Drude) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec17.195557.1989@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- >mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
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- >>Why would someone with one of those processors want to run NT? I'd
- >>much rather run the SGI UNIX/X stuff on an Indigo than run NT.
- >
- >NT benefits application developers primarily. It makes their
- >applications much more portable between architectures, greatly
- >increasing their potential market size, and lowering the cost of
- >development dramatically. It allows portable workstation applications
- >to be delivered in a cost-effective, shrink-wrapped from.
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- If I get you right, users won't need to recompile their
- apps when running on different platforms. So I can use the
- same set of disks to install Excel 5 or WinWord 3 on an SGI
- machine, an Alpha _or_ a 486 DX4/200 or Pentium machine?
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- Can't do this with Unix I don't think.... I hate to think of
- having to shrinkwrap source code and makefiles.....
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