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Linux at 17 - What Windows promised to be
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| But it's remarkable that an open source movement backed by a handful of
| commercial entities with very little marketing muscle - at least compared to
| the established proprietary and Unix operating system providers who made so
| much money in the 1980s and 1990s - could take on the data center and, more
| importantly, get the begrudging support of the very system sellers who had
| the most to lose if Linux took off. This is a testament to the powerful idea
| of a cross platform, open source operating system. Linux is what Unix should
| have been and wasn't.
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| Linux is what Windows had once promised to be - at least in terms of
| cross-platform support. In the wake of the PowerPC alliance from IBM, Apple,
| and Motorola in 1991, Microsoft made a commitment to support Windows NT 3.51
| on PowerPC chips. Windows eventually added support for Digital's Alpha NEC's
| and SGI's MIPS chips. Workstation maker Intergraph ported Windows NT 3.51 to
| its Clipper chips and said it was creating a port to Sparc chips from Sun.
| Neither ports saw the light of day.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/09/linux_at_17/
Related:
Kernel Comparison for Linux (2.6.18) verses Windows (2003 R2)
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| Architectures: Linux Windows
| PC x86 Y Y
| PC AMD64 Y Y
| PC IA-64 Y Y
| Alpha Y N
| PPC Y N
| PPC64 Y N
| SPARC32 Y N
| SPARC64 Y N
| ARM Y N
| HP PA-RISC Y N
| Moto 680x0 Y N
| MIPS Y N
| MIPS (DEC) Y N
| PowerPC Y N
| IBM S/390 Y N
| Cell Y N
| others Y N
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http://widefox.pbwiki.com/Kernel%20Comparison%20Linux%20vs%20Windows
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