Posted on 01/26/2006 9:06:27 AM PST by SirLinksalot
Ipredict CP/M willmake a comeback!...........
This could be series, though - the Mountain Dew and delivery pizza industry is gonna take it in the shorts...
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I have a 9-track tape with some of the original UNIX that ran on a Berkeley VAX.
It is amazing how long the demise of VMS and Unix has been discussed!
RPG still exists as a language. It's 40 years old at least!
Legacy lives on.
AIX will continue... since it's almost Linux now. AIX 5.3L - L being for Linux affinity, (a Linux kernel).
What's the big deal? Linux/Unix, they look and feel a lot alike. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck....
The problem w/ Unix is that you're hooked to proprietary, hardware.
And it looks increasingly like little endian hardware has won the war (look at the new Macs running intel processors).
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
It's not just Linux - all the controversy surrounding SCO has poisoned the Unix well.
I do!
"It is amazing how long the demise of VMS and Unix has been discussed!"
No doubt there will be legacy Unix and VMS apps and hardware for a long time to come. But that'll probably be pretty much their only domain.
"What's the big deal? Linux/Unix, they look and feel a lot alike. ..."
The difference is the hardware their written for. Someone here can correct me, but wasn't all the old Unix stuff mainly run on motorola processors, and more recently PowerPc's?
Nothin' inherently wrong with that... other than the cost due to lower market share.
I remember an old electronic engineer at a former company I worked for saying,"This surface mount stuff is just an industry fad. Once they find out it's unreliable they'll come back to good ol' thru-hole technology!"........circa 1988.......
VOX Technology will kill the GUI.........(VUI?).......
Yeah, I remember thinking Windows would never catch on either.
Of course I also remember telling my daughter years ago that Madonna was gonna be a one hit wonder too...
At least I'm consistent! :)
Some observations...
HP's virtual abandonment of HP-UX will come back to haunt them, a legacy of Aunt Carly's policy of Windows Everywhere at HP.
The article practially ignores the fact the AIX is a cash cow for IBM, even with their Linux push.
Sun didn't make Solaris open source because it wasn't selling well. It was...Sun has 5 Billion in cash to prove it. Sun wanted more mindshare, so they put Solaris in a postition where anyone could run it. It'll lead to people buying more Sun hardware. Solaris 10 and the new T1 multicore chips will probably bring in a huge chunk of change for Sun.
With Apple going from Classic to OS X, Unix is now the second most popular OS on the desktop; X is just a pretty gui on top of Free BSD with some Mach code thrown in.
The people that don't like the turmoil from the upcoming GPL 3 rewrite fiasco-in-the-making will turn to the BSDs as an alternative; in business it's already happening, with a lot of embedded stuff using NetBSD rather than Linux because of GPL issues.
Lastly...
Linux IS Unix. Say it however you want. It may be a clone, and in some ways, a bad clone, but it's still Unix. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck....it's a duck. So success for Linux is still success for Unix.
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