Another old OS?

You should try writing one sometime.

Get a copy of the "Dragon Book" and get back to us in a few years...

...yet another old OS.

Intel backs Linux by providing decent driver support. This enables people to use Linux platforms not just on the desktop -- competing with Windows -- but in the numerous non-PC applications where Windows is just not an option (its what happens when you "integrate" your software components, Bill, you end up with a multitool that only does one thing). The PC architecture is really the de-facto computer architecture, its used everywhere and anywhere you need a medium to high power computer thing, not just for people doing word processors and spreadsheets.

Voleware is for corporate end users and gamers (pity....). You could certainly run it on a PowerPC emulating an x86 (actually, PowerPC is my favorite chipset) but its just not cost effective (ask Apple....).

What kind of comment is "we wish intel wouldn't just back linux"?

Speak for yourself. I think its great that Intel are backing Linux, as Linux is a great operating system. Given Linux's long history and large amount of software written for it, Its far more viable as a competitor to Windows than yet another new OS would be.

If Big Bill hadn't released OS:s demanding more and more and then even some more CPU power, then Intel wouldn't sell as many CPU:s. So they may battle over VT tech - but in the end I guess they send nice X-mas gifts to big Bill!

// Lazze

Intel used to sell iRM/X 86 (I hope the spelling is correct), an x86 based, multitasking OS with heaps of IPC mechanisms. Stable too, it was.

I used to program for it in Assembler, (classical) C and Pascal, target computers where 80286 computers at a food chain in Stockholm, Sweden. (Not Switzerland!)

This must have been around... 1987? 1989?

Gus