A history lesson from Bill Joy

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Bill Joy = the BETTER Bill

Bill Joy is totally correct in that quote. But transferring the monopoly probably SAVED IBM - since their own anti-trust case fizzled out soon after. IBM did the RIGHT thing and learned from its mistakes. Duh!

"Personally I expect Linux on Cell to blow Wintel into history -but history is behavioral, and if we don?t change, it?ll just repeat on us, right?"

I see Windoze in a long downward slide into obscurity (emphasis on LONG). *NIX will prevail not just over Windoze, but all other OSs (Right now that role is Linux - which is taking away market share from proprietary UNIX solutions. The reason is that UNIX SHOULD have been on top, but its ambition was thwarted by forking, and Linux represents the "good" things about *NIX - without the fork).

InHell will be MUCH more difficult to defeat than M$. They have superior technology (65nm process up and running today), and superior designs (the Itanium IS superior design - the P4 is NOT EVEN CLOSE). Re-hashing a RISC chip with multiple cores (Cell), will NOT match up with EPIC - as long as they share the same nm process i.e. RISC requires MORE chip real estate than EPIC. Couple this with IBMs ability to deliver (ask Apple about that), and you have a LONG climb to topple InHell.

Bill Joy should be talking with Apple to sell some SPARC chips to.

Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 06/03/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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