Just realised the loss of vendors UNIX also ment the processors that went with it :
No more Alphas, PA-RISC, now Itaniums, I suppose true also for SPARC...
That also means less architecture and implementation choices, no?
Leaving us in UNIX world with Mac or AIX...
Is that to mean the only competition left is Intel vs Power-PC ?
Could that explain the decline here? People coming are mainly under linux, using GUI and not really bothered on the internals, leaving that to paid support? ( since we see fewer posts here...) they can afford now they are not running on costly HW and OS...
Unix-like operating systems dominate global computing: Android and iOS power virtually all smartphones, while Linux and other Unix-like systems host roughly 92% of websites with an identifiable server operating system.
UNIX is far from extinct. Its descendants and Unix-like systems dominate smartphones, web/cloud infrastructure, supercomputers, networking equipment, and much embedded infrastructure.
Traditional commercial UNIX variants such as AIX and Solaris have declined, but the UNIX architecture and programming model thrive through Linux, Android, macOS, iOS, BSD, and related systems. In practical influence, UNIX is more pervasive today than ever.
On the other hand, LLMs such as ChatGPT and Claude are rapidly making traditional discussion forums seem obsolete.
Where will this lead as humans become less dominant in online forums, discussions, blogs, and other social media, while LLMs are increasingly trained on content generated by other LLMs?
I recently began examining this issue in a draft paper:
Well I see more and more senior ( more than highly trained and qualified...) developers/engineers retiring in banks because fed up of seeing AI being used more and more, and having to correct code generated by outsourced site, like in Portugal, using Claude... and reading in the news how many more are getting sacked in banks here in Switzerland because of restructuration and use of AI, the true knowledge is being lost, and one day, a really bad back kick would not surprise me...
So what will be the next revolution?
I am for a return to little/small or whatever you want to call it, is beautiful, even if it means a lot to learn in order to master, now no one really masters anything look how lost are the IT directions when facing a production issue, and when all the different involved teams ( HW, Net, Architecture design, OS...) see they see no issues their side, but Production are going nuts with the issue...
