Read Peter Salus' "A Quarter Century of Unix" and come back again with another question.
You may as well ask "Why all the different cars, Holdens, Fords, Satrias,..." And yes there are hardware advantages. I wouldn't want a Sun E10K on my lap and I wouldn't want to run the National Library off a Dell laptop. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. & Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Minh Van Le [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2001 13:18 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SLUG] Why the different platforms > > > Why all the platforms ? - AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Alpha/Sparc/Sun. > > Is it a greedy vendor thing, or are there hardware advantages or > something. ---------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ---------------------- This email is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. The information contained in this e-mail message may be confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, distribution, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. Confidentiality attached to this communication is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken delivery to you. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and notify us by return e-mail or telephone Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited on +61 2 9413 6300. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
