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I think so. For one thing, computers are getting more powerful
exponetially, the time of DOS-derivatives was over, and I think
commercial UNIX OSes like IRIX (awesome!) and Solaris (OK) would get
much of the PC market share for themselves. However, before this could
happen Linux came, killed IRIX and near-killed Solaris.

Now we are stuck with a choice of a hobbiest UNX-like creation, and
something non-UNIX at all (XP). Thanks a lot, *!

Quote:> What if Linus Torvals felt that his toy Operating System prototype was
> unworthy, and never released it? Would the world as we know it be
> different now?

> I think so. For one thing, computers are getting more powerful
> exponetially, the time of DOS-derivatives was over, and I think
> commercial UNIX OSes like IRIX (awesome!) and Solaris (OK) would get
> much of the PC market share for themselves. However, before this could
> happen Linux came, killed IRIX and near-killed Solaris.

> Now we are stuck with a choice of a hobbiest UNX-like creation, and
> something non-UNIX at all (XP). Thanks a lot, *!

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Why is all this topical in all the groups you have crossposted is
another story though, but trolling was never an art mastered by
competent, logically thinking human beings, so I guess there is
no hope.

-Mike

Sure they would, they'd just have spent their spare time arguing over
whether FreeBSD or NetBSD was better instead of arguing over which Linux
distro was coolest.

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Quote:> A bunch of scientists who turned their cra**y windows 95 boxes
> into decent computers 10 or 15 years ago wouldn't gotten nearly
> so much work done.

nb

Frankly, had Linus not come around, we might all still be waiting for the
Hurd.

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(_)/ (_) | reality.  -- Albert Einstein  

Quote:> Well, that was me -- except it was Windows 3.1 and I'm a mathematician,
> not a scientist.  But I looked around for "a unix" that I could run on a
> PC.  But, way back then, I believe that linux was it.       I recall
> considering minix, but that was actually no longer being actively fiddled
> with (we did use a minix bootloader at first, though).  Idon't believe
> there was a *bsd* that ran on a cheap machine then.

Before that I remember coherent unix, which cst mild amounts of money ($200?)
for something on a 286. Linux came about when the 386 arrived, because
the 386 had hardware support for task switching (virtual 86 mode) and
many other things (mmu) that greatly simplified writing an o/s by
offloading the hard bits onto the hardware.

Quote:> Frankly, had Linus not come around, we might all still be waiting for the
> Hurd.

Peter

JS