Re: OFFTOPIC: Regarding NT vs Linux

Cort Dougan (cort@cs.nmt.edu)
Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:21:34 -0600 (MDT)


NT is discontinued for the powerpc, and Linux is quite alive on the
powerpc.

}Guys talk about NT supporting SMP on upto 4 processors and enterprise
}version upto 8 processors. What is Linux's limit of SMP, if any? NT runs
}on Intel, MIPS, Alpha and PowerPC. Linux runs on Intel, Alpha and Sparc.

There's quite a nice set of libraries that give user programs a posix
interface to what they think is a unix system under NT. From what I've
heard gcc, emacs, xv and several other common applications work under it.