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Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Sun Nov 30 01:21:16 UTC 2003


On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:31:40PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> It's quite amusing to see all these cheap shots directed at Microsoft,
> while leaving the hardware players (ie. Intel, IBM) alone.  Whether it's
> OS/2, Windows, DOS, or Linux, they're all running on Intel CPU.  If
> Microsoft's dominance is so bad, then Intel's position is worse by order
> of magnitude.
> 
> So far, Korean (federal) and German (municipal) government decided to
> try Linux.  This means Intel CPU, also.  Where are the commies when you
> really need them?

Actually if they do start switching it means they can pick almost any
architecture they want, but I suspect IA32 is going to be the cheapest
in general.

Lennart Sorensen
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