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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re:  Unix and the future
Message-ID: <498@terak.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 12:16:57 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 11 12:16:57 1985
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> There are very solid reasons why (from a commercial standpoint)
> firms are likely to stick with a known commercial winner.

Unix?  A commercial winner???  So far Unix(tm) has generated a lot of
*predictions* of becoming a commercial winner.  And so far Unix has
failed rather miserably to live up to those predictions.

What O/S has Unix outsold?  The non-existent S1?  Cray-1's O/S?

Unix has been living on the incredible predictions of its impending
inevitable success.  Those predictions are starting to ring hollow.

I fearlessly predict that Unix will continue to do well in the "niche"
market it already owns: systems used for developing programs which will
be burned into PROMs.  I also predict that Unix will not make any major
inroads into other applications.
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Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug