On 3/8/07, matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://9fans.net/archive/2001/06/170
From: Lucio De Re <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Quake is to Linux what 1-2-3 was to the IBM Personal Computer.
Without it, I believe, Linux would still be as much of a curiosity as
Plan 9 is today.
interesting perspective. A different one comes from my side. By
1993,at my job at the now-gone Supercomputing Research Center, we were
already buying PCs to evaluate Linux and FreeBSD on PCs for
clustering. I had been running 386bsd at that time almost since its
release. And folks in DOE were doing the same kind of testing.
Clusters had a long history -- almost 10 years -- by 1993; it's not
that Linux or FreeBSD did anything new or better, in fact at the time
they were considerably worse (in fact, most Linux cluster software is
not an advance over what was routinely done in 1993); but you could
fix them.
By 1993 Sun and other companies had made it impossible to get OS
source. The vendors, who owned the clustering space at the time, cut
their own throats by refusing to release source. People voted with
their feet. Sound familiar? :-)
At the same time, the supercomputing space was 0% of all PC sales, so
it's not like we mattered. Google and the banking sector have changed
that somewhat.
thanks
ron
