On 19 Dec 1997 05:59:43 -0600, "S. M. Halloran" <mitch@duzen.com.tr> wrote:
From Edupage, 18 December 1997:
<----------> TACTICAL SHIFT BY WORKSTATION COMPANIES Silicon Graphics Inc.'s plan to allow SGI graphics software to run on Microsoft's Windows NT operating system provides new evidence that a growing number of companies are giving up on Unix and instead standardizing on Windows NT. SGI hopes to be able to use its experience in developing high-end graphics software without having to spend a great deal of time building the underlying technology represented by an operating system. (Washington Post 17 Dec 97) <---------->
Does this mean that Unix is dying? No, it means that graphics professionals are buying Wintel boxes instead of SGI's expensive workstations. ( a shame really, SGI make some damn nice workstations, but that pesky price/performance ratio is pushing people into high end Wintel boxes) -- Phelix