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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!europa.clark.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: Josh Birnbaum <J_Birnbaum@fbp-ny.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc, Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 00:45:03 +0000 Organization: FGBNY Lines: 15 Message-ID: <331CC20C.4542@fbp-ny.com> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5fhkv5$8vj$1@halcyon.com> <5fhugj$4q2@paperboy.ids.net> <331CE677.46F5@net5.net> Reply-To: J_Birnbaum@fbp-ny.com NNTP-Posting-Host: nyc-ny19-14.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Mar 04 9:37:46 PM PST 1997 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.sco.misc:35968 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36555 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6197 comp.sys.sgi.misc:28834 "I am looking for a OS that runs on Intel boxes that has *most* of the same functionality, performance, ease of use, and reliability." This will be hard to match as you are running on hardware that must be compatable with and are built upon 20 year old Intel 8086 architectures not to mention the underlying architecture of the system. Silicon Graphics workstations are the Mercedes 600SL of computer world: -Beautifully engineered. -Fast. -Reliable. You get what you pay for. Josh...