Re: OFFTOPIC: Regarding NT vs Linux

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cyphercom.com)
Sat, 20 Sep 1997 14:09:09 -0400


From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: OFFTOPIC: Regarding NT vs Linux
To: cort@cs.nmt.edu (Cort Dougan)

> NT is discontinued for the powerpc, and Linux is quite alive on the
> powerpc.
>
> }Guys talk about NT supporting SMP on upto 4 processors and enterprise
> }version upto 8 processors. What is Linux's limit of SMP, if any? NT
> }runs on Intel, MIPS, Alpha and PowerPC. Linux runs on Intel, Alpha
> }and Sparc.

NT is dead on MIPS too

Just read the other day in one of the trade rags here that SGI is looking at
NT for its low end machines.

Could be that M$ at first infects apples, and then rot will spread.

-Chris