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- From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Novell bought USL?
- Message-ID: <PCG.92Dec31162706@decb.aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 16:27:06 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com's message of 28 Dec 92 03: 34:04 GMT
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- On 28 Dec 92 03:34:04 GMT, gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) said:
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- gary> (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
-
- pcg> I doubt this very much. I think that Novell see Unix not as
- pcg> competition but as salvation, as Novell (and AT&T) are scared dead
- pcg> by Windows NT.
-
- gary> In view of the large amount of resources needed by Windows in
- gary> general, and what NT is looking like, I doubt that Novell is
- gary> "scared dead". I'm sure they are expecting to fight for market
- gary> share, but only if Windows NT Server comes out cheap; something
- gary> that hasn't been true of Microsoft products other than early
- gary> versions of DOS.
-
- Microsoft have an habit of giving licenses to manufacturers for
- virtually nothing. Preinstalling Windows 3.1 on a machine costs so
- little that everybody does it; the millions and millions of Windows 3.1
- sold each year are for the most part of this sort. It creates mass. It
- looks good. And it shuts out the competition. Think of it: if every
- Windows 3.1 user had to go out and purchase for something like a hundred
- dollars the Windows 3.1 kit and install it manually, I think that many
- fewer Windows 3.1 kits were sold, and because users tend to use whatever
- "freebie" they find ready installed on their machine, and both because
- if there is nothing bundled on the machine, they might not buy Windows
- 3.1 at all.
-
- gary> Excuse me, but so far as I know, the only server support provided
- gary> by Destiny/4.2/Unixware for graphics would be for X running on
- gary> TCP/IP.
-
- Firstly it is a fairly impressive X. They have a fairly decent sort of
- drag-and-drop GUI (which is hard to dismiss)
-
- Secondly they run Windows 3.1 under it, much like OS/2; actually better,
- I think. Having used Windows 386/3.0 under DOSMerge on both a Dell SVR4
- system and a Sun 386i workstation I can assure you that it runs zippily
- fast, and it is exactly equivalent to the real thing. Well, actually
- faster, thanks to a much faster IO subsystem than DOS, and to virtual
- memory.
- --
- Piercarlo Grandi, Dept of CS, PC/UW@Aberystwyth <pcg@aber.ac.uk>
- E l'italiano cantava, cantava. E le sue disperate invocazioni giunsero
- alle orecchie del suo divino protettore, il dio della barzelletta
-