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Are you related to Mike Cox?

Since my understanding is that .net is intended to be a Windows-only technology and MS has withdrawn support for all hardware except for Intel and AMD; by your reasoning, only x86 and Itanium have any future. Since there are a fair number of us who will have to be dragged away from UNIX kicking and screaming, I do believe that alternative processors will always have a future... If they become popular enough, MS might even be compelled to support them again.

Nevertheless, Alpha has survived quite nicely since Compaq pulled the plug on NT-Alpha. HP's only killing it because it's a rival technology to their own. I am, or course, somewhat biased because I learned UNIX on what was then called OSF/1 (now Tru64) and it is still my favorite flavor.

BTW: You may be aware that there are 2 projects that are trying to bring .net technology to Linux and UNIX, in spite of MS. If things go well, you may find that there's more life in RISC processors than you had imagined.

Posted by: John L. Ries   Posted on: 10/17/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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