From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 03:45:54 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Mach for i386 / Mt Xinu or other In-Reply-To: <20170222031836.GH9439@mcvoy.com> References: <20170221120218.E07BA18C10B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20170221164728.GZ20341@mcvoy.com> <20170222031836.GH9439@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:18 PM Larry McVoy wrote: > That was pretty early, Ron. I betcha if you tried it now (or 10 years > ago) things would be different. > > > I think that is true. But from my point of view "linux winning" was not necessarily "linux was better at the time." I think it was a lot of factors. When I got to Los Alamos in 1999, it was still a tossup between the BSDs and Linux as to "which is better." Nevertheless, for lots of reasons, in 1998 (the same year I found Linux to be less reliable over time) Los Alamos had cast its lot with Linux, for all kinds of reasons. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: