1. Microsoft And Windows Competitors
LINUX, a 1991 version of UNIX, was developed by Linus Torvalds, a student at the time, and by hundreds of volunteer programmers around the world. This system can be downloaded at absolutely no charge from the Internet. ... "Sun's claim that it built the backbone of the Internet is not that far from the truth", said a PC World article in May, 1999. ... Be Inc. also offers BeIA, a version of the BeOS intended specifically for internet appliances. ... The new platform offers an Internet Server System using Intel, Sparc, and Alpha processors, Internet Appliance Platforms, RAID solutions, Mult...
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