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From: bdwheele@indiana.edu (Brian Wheeler)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 4 Apr 1997 22:38:02 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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In article <3346646b.68448149@news.sprynet.com>,
lcappite@sprynet.com (Goatboy) writes:
>>4 years ago(when FreeBSD started) there were no 200 MHz x86 CPUs!
>
>Actually, there were. The DEC Alphas and the MIPS processors, all of
>which NT can run on.
Um, I'd like to see a source documenting 200MHZ x86 CPUs 4 years
ago.
Alphas and MIPS are _not_ x86 machines. You can't get NT MIPS anymore,
and you can't get Office for ALPHA/NT. Sure, it runs under the x86 emulator,
but why waste cycles on emulation? Why won't MS release a _native_ version?
I suspect its because they pulled their standard hijinx and made it x86
specific.
>
>>If you want to look at the UNIX family tree,you trace back to Multics,
>>of which Unics(as it was first spelled) was a single-processor version
>>(so is SMP UNIX really Multix?);if you do the same for NT,you get
>>Seattle Computer's Quick and Dirty Operating System for 8088s,
>>designed to make CP/M apps portable for an 8-bit data line leading
>>into 16-bit logic.
>
>NT was not even remotely based on Q-DOS.
It has a pretty big subsystem which is directly based on Q-DOS...
any time you try to run a DOS app, it fires that one up.
--
Brian Wheeler
bdwheele@indiana.edu