[Jewelry making - Article 00024] - Re: [Orchid] Process tracking program

[Trevor F]

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>      ... Many countries, laboratories, educational- and research
>     institutions long ago switched to UNIX (or started there) because
>     it is a far more stable platform. 

    I realize that this is a bit off topic but I thought it would be
    worth mentioning nonetheless. 

    Actually the _original_ reason that many educational and research
    institutions started using UNIX was because DEC (Digital Equipment
    Corp) gave it and the machines to run it to them for free. As a
    result most of the engineering, computer, chemistry and physics
    students throughout the US and Canada in the 70s and 80s grew up on
    UNIX. It was all we knew, or needed for that matter. So it was both
    the freebies and the fact that it was, and is, a damn good OS that
    led to it's widespread acceptance. 

    Care to guess what those students wanted to use when they graduated
    and got out into the real world? Yup, UNIX again. So in due time
    almost all labs and R&D facilities in the science and science related
    fields were dominated by UNIX or it's derivatives. 

    While it's true that Mac OS X is indirectly UNIX-based it's not the
    only UNIX-derived OS out there. Linux is another important UNIX
    descendant and it's quite popular on PCs. 

Cheers,
Trevor F.
in The City of Light
Visit TouchMetal.com at http://www.touchmetal.com



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