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Tim,

Oh, and generally good news for Intel has been the Apple/Microsoft-agnostic move to Unix/Linux for servers and the like.

More history.

During the Willamette and Merced projects, Senior VP Albert Yu demanded that the engineers transitioned all of their development from IBM AIX and HP-UX machines (i.e. UNIX) to Windows NT. The desire, of course, was to "eat our own dog food" and run everything on Intel-based machines.

You can already guess how the engineers reacted to that.

Anyway, a small group of engineers experimented with Linux and ported their development tools there. They demonstrated that the tools worked just as well as the tools on the IBM and HP machines. And of course, the Intel-based machines were cheaper. Concerns over stability and reliability of these machines seemed to quickly go away as more and more of the project was ported over to Linux.

I remember when my project started making that transition as well. It was a TON of new machines ready to take my jobs, and the only thing going through my mind was, "Wow, why didn't we think of this sooner?"

The rest, of course, was history. I can't imagine doing work on anything else but Linux-based machines. No way was I ever going to Windows NT.

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