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Unix Isn't Dead

Posted by timothy on from the way-out-of-premature-burial dept.

windows bios world writes: "Compaq, Sun, SGI, and IBM are releasing new machines running Unix. From cnet.com: 'Compaq has begun shipping test versions of a new line of AlphaServer Unix servers using the EV7 "Marvel" version of the company's Alpha processor. ... As expected, IBM released on Monday its p670, a 16-processor machine that's essentially a smaller version of Big Blue's top-end 32-processor p690 "Regatta" server introduced in late 2001.' Also, Sun teamed up with Sony to release video-on-demand servers." And of course, there's OS X.

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  1. Windows is dead by pyite69 · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Start migrating away from those legacy NT/2000/XP
    systems.

  2. Re:How by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fuck you, you fucking wanker.

  3. Re:The Question Isn't Whether UNIX is dead... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Dear Dark Paladin,

    Please choose a less pretentious name. This one makes you look like an utter cock smoker!

    Thanks,
    A. Coward.

  4. Re:Silly people *tsk,tsk,tsk* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    > 30 year track record of being reliable, stable

    You're kidding right? I take it you missed the first 20 years of UNIX which really sucked ass for those of us maintaining machines. It was years and years of remote root hole of the week and jobs getting completely botched before things got nice. If you wanted reliable and secure, you bought a mainframe and that was when mainframes were mostly custom OS jobs and not UNIX. The only reason it wasn't a total disaster was script kiddies hadn't been born yet and the community as a whole was less malicious. Probably because the Internet was still research based and not commercial.

  5. Re:OS X rules... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    OS X is for HOMOSEXUALS like you. Get a life dickwad!