On Jan 10, 8:12 pm, "Cletus Spencer" <cspen...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Rex Ballard" <rex.ball...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:fe3d7a30-dce7-46a7-b3cf-0ab78ce2a9a9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > On Jan 10, 10:03 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To really understand the growth of Linux, you need to look at the
> > growth of UNIX in the server market. UNIX was an operating system
> > that turned a relatively basic machine into a multiuser interactive
> > system with powerful applications and powerful intercommunication.
> Yes. Linux is growing in the server space by cannabilizing Unix installs.
> Most everyone already knows this.
Microsoft tried to canibalize the UNIX market, and didn't make much of
a dent. At the same time, UNIX was giving more "Bang for the Buck".
A $50,000 server in 1992 was 10 Mips, and supported about 500 page
views per second. Today, a $50,000 server has 16 processors, with 1
billion instructions per second per processor, and can handle complex
content equivalent to about 10,000 page views per second.
> Any support for this claim where Microsoft violated contracts with hardware
> vendors who then gave the USB/PCI "codes" to linux companies?
Microsoft promised Adaptec that future versions of Windows (Windows NT
and later) would have SCSI drives, and would not support IDE.
Microsoft even set the drive configuration tool to read SCSI, but as
we all know, Microsoft did not drop IDE. As a result, Adaptec gave
all of the Vendor codes and device codes they knew about to Red Hat,
who was able to match drivers to vendor/device codes.
> > Linux had support for OpenGL in 1998, which enabled Linux users to
> > have real 3D graphics using the Mesa API set.
>
> And Windows NT 3.5 supported OpenGL in 1994.
Actually, SGI invented OpenGL, in 1992, for UNIX.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL
I was wrong, Mesa was Written in 1993
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_3D
According to http://www.mesa3d.org/intro.html
March 1997: Mesa 2.2 is released. It supports the new 3dfx Voodoo
graphics card via the Glide library. It's the first really popular
hardware OpenGL implementation for Linux.
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