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My position here is based upon the majority of machines that are out there, IE, computers. There are more MSDOS machines than Unix machines. That's all I'm saying. There are more MSDOS developers than Unix developers. There are more MSDOS applications than Unix applications. There are more machines that concern themelves with PC emulation/compatibility than with Unix; all the "big" machines can pretty well do both. The Amiga can do MSDOS and Unix. So can the Mac. There are Unix implementations (myriad) for the PC. There are (myriad) Unix machines that can run MSDOS in a window, more or less. So it's complex. But bottom line, I see no compelling evidence that this is the "decade/century" of Unix. I see things going just the other way. Windows, on a PC, going faster and faster until it is (at last) usable. A machine on each desk – running MSDOS (some variant thereof). You don't see many PC's running a plant – so far, they're a little bit lacking in power. Not much – ten years ago, you couldn't buy the compute power a 50 mhz 486 puts on the desk (or a 25 mhz 68040) to run a plant without being Boeing or someone like that. Now, joe user can do it. But it may not be long before you DO see it. Fault tolerant machines are there already, powerful machines are there, big memory machines are there, networks are in place… I see no need for Unix, other than to support companies that make Unix. –Ben