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From: mat@amdahl.UUCP (Mike Taylor)
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Subject: Re:  Unix and the future
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Date: Sun, 14-Apr-85 15:29:07 EST
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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?

> 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.
> -- 

It must have outsold the Cray-1 OS, because Cray has switched to Unix(tm)
for the Cray-2.
-- 
Mike Taylor                        ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,sun}!amdahl!mat

[ This may not reflect my opinion, let alone anyone else's.  ]