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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: ggm@algebras.org, arnold@skeeve.com
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Research UNIX on the AT&T 3B2?
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:42:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201808280642.w7S6gWYX002026@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKr6gn1A+eKb2aYTJBExnRaHdRXGrg4kQ_ryUeU1CMxDuuaK8Q@mail.gmail.com>

George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> wrote:

> none of these things were fatal but somehow all of these things were.

This goes back to Clem's argument about economics. The increasing power
and declining cost of Intel HW combined with the _almost_ neglible cost
of Linux combined to kill off almost all the legacy Unixes.

That Linux modelled many things after SunOS also helped.

But I can testify from experience at my last job that AIX, HP/UX and
Solaris are all still in heavy use at major companies, mainly hosting
big database systems, but still there and not going away too soon.

Arnold

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-28  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-24 15:13 Seth Morabito
2018-08-24 15:23 ` William Cheswick
2018-08-24 16:06 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-24 16:46   ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-24 17:54     ` Jon Forrest
2018-08-26  2:22       ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-27 15:54   ` Mary Ann Horton
2018-08-27 17:06     ` Seth Morabito
2018-08-27 17:33     ` Clem Cole
2018-08-27 19:59       ` John P. Linderman
2018-08-27 20:27         ` Brad Spencer
2018-08-28  0:24       ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-28  0:30         ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-28  6:01           ` arnold
2018-08-28  6:11             ` George Michaelson
2018-08-28  6:42               ` arnold [this message]
2018-08-28 13:13                 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-08-28 22:39                 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29  5:25                   ` arnold
2018-08-28 22:33             ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29  0:36               ` Harald Arnesen
2018-08-29  0:46                 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-29  5:29                   ` [TUHS] SunOS code? arnold
2018-08-29 14:40                     ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-29 14:41                       ` Dan Cross
2018-08-29 14:44                         ` William Pechter
2018-08-29 14:46                           ` Warner Losh
2018-08-29 14:45                         ` Clem Cole
2018-08-29 14:43                     ` Warner Losh
2018-08-29 14:45                       ` Warner Losh
2018-08-29 14:53                       ` Larry McVoy
2018-09-01 11:43                         ` Steve Mynott
2018-09-01 13:50                           ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-01 14:32                             ` Warner Losh
2018-09-04  9:39                               ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-01 15:01                           ` Larry McVoy
2018-09-01 15:20                             ` Warner Losh
2018-09-01 18:24                               ` Steve Mynott
2018-09-01 18:38                                 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-29 23:09                       ` David Arnold
2018-08-29  1:06                 ` [TUHS] Research UNIX on the AT&T 3B2? Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29  3:23                   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-08-29  4:36                     ` [TUHS] Cryptic Unix Commands Warren Toomey
2018-08-29 16:13                       ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-08-29 22:03                       ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 22:09                         ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-08-29 22:21                           ` William Pechter
2018-08-29 23:04                             ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-08-29 23:38                               ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-30  3:59                               ` William Pechter
2018-08-29 22:31                         ` Dan Mick
2018-08-29 23:00                           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-08-30  8:28                             ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-30 11:06                         ` ron
2018-08-30 11:35                           ` John P. Linderman
2018-08-30 13:24                           ` Clem Cole
2018-08-30 14:31                             ` William Pechter
2018-08-30 15:01                               ` Clem Cole
2018-08-30 15:22                                 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-30 16:11                                   ` William Pechter
2018-08-29  5:06                     ` [TUHS] Research UNIX on the AT&T 3B2? Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-08-29 14:25                       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-08-29 14:41                         ` Dan Cross
2018-08-29 14:50                           ` Chet Ramey
2018-08-29 14:59                             ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-29 15:08                               ` Chet Ramey
2018-08-29 17:14                           ` Arno Griffioen
2018-08-29 23:23                             ` Eric Wayte
2018-08-30  3:03                               ` Gregg Levine
2018-08-29 17:28                           ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-08-30  5:58                         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-08-30 13:14                           ` Warner Losh
2018-08-29  8:43                     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29  7:03                   ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-08-28  1:14         ` Warren Toomey
2018-08-28 17:47         ` Paul Winalski
2018-08-26  8:48 ` arnold
2018-08-26 13:09 Norman Wilson

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