> I doubt if M$ had anything to do with it.

Intel can run linux too... Naive extrodinair? Or just plain stupid? Of
course MS is behind this!
I dont hate MS, I am an XP fan, and I use office and other products of MS.
But I dont agree with everything they do, and i also think vista is their
worst product.

> And before you blame Intel
I dont blame intel, I never blamed intel. Intel just makes chips.
Its an OS war and MS is doing everything to be sure it will dominate in 3rd
world countires because they are the majority of the population of the
earth... you should see Bill G in china ... lol....

Oh they are scared to death that Linux will become popular in third world
countires and whats a better way to stop it?
Stomp out free computers with linux given to children. They have battled
this gesture of humanitarian act, like their worse enemy,
what morons! And Bill G has the nerve to call himself a humanitarian? He is
one, as long as he sees the MS flag waving on every country. They should be
ashamed of themselves mixing up corporate politics with laptops for
children..

asswipes

"dennis@home" wrote in message
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>
> "oh great" wrote in message
> news:47f58424$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>> if there was no OLPC there would be no wintel version.
>>
>> MS got afraid that millions would start using Linux and it was a nitch...
>> they had to stop.
>
> Don't be stupid.. Intel wanted to sell cpus and the OLPC group wanted to
> use something else even if it cost more.
> This annoyed Intel and they are better at engineering stuff for production
> than the rest so they built an alternative that was better. I doubt if M$
> had anything to do with it.
>
>
> I know there is an irrational hate of M$ amongst a lot of linux users but
> trying to pin this on them is silly.
>
> And before you blame Intel just remember who made linux possible in the
> first place.. the 386 was specifically designed to run unix and was the
> first CPU with a standard MMU so that things like linux were "easy" to do.
> Without them there would probably be loads of different unicies with odd
> page sizes, etc. like there was before Intel did the 386 family and no MMU
> at all in PCs. (BTW I know you can run unix without an MMU but swapping
> (as opposed to paging) is so old hat.)

In article ,
dennis@home wrote:
>
>first place.. the 386 was specifically designed to run unix and was the

Ummmm....got a cite for that? I seem to remember something
very different: UNIX was designed to take advantage of memory management
features on the DEC VAX line.

>first CPU with a standard MMU so that things like linux were "easy" to do.

Hogwash. The IBM 370 architecture had this in 1970. (For instance)

"the wharf rat" wrote in message
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> In article ,
> dennis@home wrote:
>>
>>first place.. the 386 was specifically designed to run unix and was the
>
> Ummmm....got a cite for that? I seem to remember something
> very different: UNIX was designed to take advantage of memory management
> features on the DEC VAX line.

What has Unix (a bit of software) being designed to run on a Vax (a bit of
hardware) got to do with Intel designing a bit of hardware to run Unix? Your
memory may be correct (I agree it sounds about right) but your logic is
cr@p.

>
>>first CPU with a standard MMU so that things like linux were "easy" to do.
>
> Hogwash. The IBM 370 architecture had this in 1970. (For instance)
>

Hogwash to you. Lots of computers had MMUs but they were all different, even
the IBM was changed from machine to machine. Some had 1k page sizes some had
8k and other odd sizes for instance.
Intel certainly standardised the MMU in microprocessors even if it was a
second attempt after the segmented MMU in the 286. I liked the Intel 432 CPU
myself but that went down a military path and disappeared.

the wharf rat wrote:
> In article ,
> dennis@home wrote:
>> first place.. the 386 was specifically designed to run unix and was the
>
> Ummmm....got a cite for that? I seem to remember something
> very different: UNIX was designed to take advantage of memory management
> features on the DEC VAX line.

Untrue. Unix was developed by people from Bell Labs on a PDP-11. The
early PDP-11s had very crude, segment oriented, memory management. E.g.
in order to grow a process' data segment, the entire process had to be
swapped out and swapped back in into a larger segment. I don't recall
the PDP-11 having paging.
The Berkeley guys then took the Unix source code and ported it to the
VAX. The VAX had proper paging.

>> first CPU with a standard MMU so that things like linux were "easy" to do.
>
> Hogwash. The IBM 370 architecture had this in 1970. (For instance)

However, a PC with a 386 inside costs a tad less than a 370.

Fact is that the 386 had interesting features (MMU, built-in support for
tasks) Linus Thorvalds wanted to explore and out of that grew Linux.

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