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:->On 19-Jan-99 Robert Klein wrote:
:->> The fact of cross platform support is indeed not confusing.
:->> What I wnated to say is, if I go to the average guy and tell him,
:->> he will just not understand. If I tell him, 'Linux runs on
:->> your PC and your friends Mac,' then he will understand. If I
:->> tell him 'Linux runs on PC, PowerMac, UltraSparc, Alpha, ARM,
:->> ...' then he will just stop to listen anymore (or read an
:->> article).
:->
:->so you say it runs on IBM PCs, Apple Macs, Sun servers, SGI servers and
:->workstations, DEC servers and workstations, the cool new Corel network computer,...
:->
:->then if they stop listening point out that Linux is part of the ABM unoffical
:->alliance (Anything But Microsoft) and that Microsoft don't like Linux and are
:->actively trying to stop it,...
:->
:->then if they stop listening point out that Apple ship Linux, Sun have a
:->16processor machine which they are testing Linux on, NASA use a Linux cluster and
:->put a Linux box into space, that Fujitsu have a massively parallel Sparc machine
:->running Linux, that Titanic was rendered on a Linux (Sparc?) machine farm, that
Alpha actually, and that's a great example, since DreamWorks had a
fpu error I believe, and was able to solve it immediately (or something
along those lines) by doing the ol' oh..it's GPLed...well lemme tweak the
code here, and whallah!
:->Intel demonstated a Quad processor Xeon at it's
launch,... :->
:->then if they stop listening walk away, because they are not worth talking to.
:->
:->in any case, what would they be doing reading the press release if none of this
:->meant anything to them?
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:->simon
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