Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: morphy@alumni.caltech.edu (Jones M. Murphy, Jr.)
Subject: Re: PVM on Windows PCs?
Organization: We Are The World
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 22:07:39 GMT
Message-ID: <morphy.141.2E63ADAB@alumni.caltech.edu>

The reason so many people are running Windows is that they can get their jobs 
done with the apps available for Windows, quickly and easily. Many people find 
this difficult to understand, hence the naive suggestions of "run Linux", 
etc. Linux is fine, but it doesn't run many of the most popular business apps. 
If you think you can fix that, go ahead and write those apps for Linux, or 
whatever flavour of Unix you like best. In the meantime, the vast majority of 
small sytem users are on Windows, running Excel, Word etc. That's the way it 
is. Get used to it.

 For any real world app, corresponding functionality for Unix is far more 
expensive(or absent, for that matter) and there is a binary compatibility 
nightmare if you move from one RISC vendor to another.

I'd like to see PVM on Windows as a front end into an environment of fast 
RISC compute servers.
Jones

