Re: AMIGA will use Linux, but Linux has several "multimedia-deficie

allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
Sat, 10 Jul 1999 12:21:38 -0400 (EDT)

On 10 Jul, Alexander Viro wrote:
+-----
| On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 allbery@kf8nh.apk.net wrote:
| > My reading is that the technical types are saying "Linux" to the
| > marketing types and the general public because they know that "RTLinux"
| > would only confuse them.
|
| Good for them if it's so. But in that case benchmarks on the standard
| kernel simply do not apply.
+--->8

It's a press release (and subsequent press-oriented clarification). I
don't expect it to make sense on techie grounds --- that includes
benchmarks (which are all but meaningless even on equivalent
configurations). Read it as marketing babble and it makes about as
much sense as any other marketing babble does.

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