im gona put up a damn list for this if i keep seeing this
threed, anyway did we for get about Linux, and the whole slew of
BSD's out there? Last i checked linux, freebsd, netbsd, etc..
ran on x86 and others. I have one word for you "flavor".
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On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Stackpole, Bill wrote:
> Unix is proprietary in the sense that hardware manufactures of computer
> systems have to build kernels and drivers that operate on there
> processors and peripherals. Even companies like SCO that write code to
> more generic hardware have the right to copyright their work and sell it
> if they wish. BUT this has little to do with the classic definition of
> "open systems." (see
> http://www.rdg.opengroup.org/public/news/feb96/whitepap.htm#RTFToC3 )
> Microsoft is a member of OSF which means they are committed to providing
> interoperability between systems at a software level. For example - MS'
> C compiler supports a standard set of function as does Sun's and HP's.
[snip]
> > >"...open systems means choice. Software systems that run on many
> > different
> > >kinds of machines give the user a wide choice of hardware platforms
> > and
> > >the choice of hardwarebecomes much less important than with older
> > >technologies..." Brian Maskell Associates Inc.
> >
> > Pardon me for interjecting here. But aren't most versions of Unix
> > proprietary? Xenix, Ultrix, AIX (among others) all only run on 1
> > manufacturer's
> > computers and that happens to be the same manufacturer that makes the
> > O/S.
> > And exactly how usable is an "open system" if it requires the owner
> > to write his/her
> > own hardware drivers or tweak the source to make it run in my "only
> > slightly
> > different version" of an "open" OS? This is part of the reason why
> > NT and
> > Novell chip away at Unix market share on a daily basis. BTW: couldn't
> > you
> > find someone better to quote than a manufacturing process consultant.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
>
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