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Re:Did Linux kill commercial Unix? by dekhn on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:16PM (#21219735)
well, let's see. in '99 I could buy a $50K SGI with IRIX or a $2K linux machine. With the exception of graphics and heavy floating point, the linux machine did everything the irix machine did. So I bought 6... and saved myself $25K.
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Re:Did Linux kill commercial Unix? by bifrost on Friday October 11, 2019 @12:11AM (#21221488)
In 1999 the SGI was much more stable, but most people still turned their desktops on/off every day :)
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