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Twenty different vendors combined their hardware with their own version of Unix. There was nothing special about that.
by trasz 8y ago
Twenty different vendors combined their hardware with their own version of Unix. There was nothing special about that.
- pjmlp 8y agoSure there was, the vertical integration and overall user experience.
- walterbell 8y agoWith the end of Moore's Law, are we returning to vertically integrated hardware+software? Domain Specific Architecture talk by Hennessy & Patterson, 2018 talk for 2017 Turing Award: http://iscaconf.org/isca2018/docs/HennessyPattersonTuringLectureISCA4June2018.pdf http://iscaconf.org/isca2018/docs/HennessyPattersonTuringLec...
- pjmlp 8y agoI will watch the talk later. However I can say yes, we are returning to those days. Thanks to the thin razor margins you see OEMs now selling un-upgradable phones, laptops, tablets, 2-1, leaving the old desktop PC for a niche market that gets smaller every year, mostly targeted at gamers. Also OEMs got envious of Apple as the surviving icon of those days, all of them want to be Apple of their market and sell experiences.
- bogomipz 8y agoHow did that make them different than all the other vendors that had their own hardware and versions of UNIX at the time - HPUX, Solaris, DEC etc?