[chem83]

From the linked Wikipedia article on Tannenbaum x Torvalds debate: > but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5

I find it interesting how academic circles back then were really not betting on the longevity of x86.

[pjmlp]

It was not believed UNIX workstations were to be disrupted as they were with Google plans of cheap PC hardware running GNU/Linux on x86.

Maybe had BSD not be fighting AT&T, or Microsoft bothered with providing a proper POSIX experience in Windows NT insteaf of making the minimum for goverment contracts, and Linux history would have been much different, including its impact on cheap UNIX servers.