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  1. Path: winternet.com!not-for-mail
  2. From: jdege@winternet.com (Jeff Dege)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows,alt.wired,alt.religion.scientology,alt.games.warcraft,alt.games.duke3d,alt.games.descent,alt.flame,alt.fan.bill-gates,alt.destroy.microsoft,alt.cyberspace,alt.cracks,alt.crackers,alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,alt.bigfoot,alt.2600
  4. Subject: Re: NT or 95?
  5. Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows,alt.wired,alt.religion.scientology,alt.games.warcraft,alt.games.duke3d,alt.games.descent,alt.flame,alt.fan.bill-gates,alt.destroy.microsoft,alt.cyberspace,alt.cracks,alt.crackers,alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,alt.bigfoot,alt.2600
  6. Date: 21 Apr 1996 04:12:44 GMT
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  12.  
  13. On Sun, 21 Apr 1996 06:29:29 GMT, Dave Glue (daveacg@interlog.com) wrote:
  14. : On Fri, 19 Apr 96 20:20:20 GMT, evrwrite@powergrid.electriciti.com (Ed
  15. : >
  16. : >WinNT is *intended* for central-servers and *multi-user* systems, not 
  17. : >single-user machines.
  18. : 
  19. : Completely untrue.  NT _Server_ fills that need, NT _workstation_
  20. : fills the single-user.  NT is becoming quite a 3D workstation
  21. : platform, for example.
  22. : 
  23.     Client and server are terms referring to the way processes interact,
  24. and have nothing whatsoever to do with hardware or OS (except insofar
  25. as some OSes are incapable of achieving the stability needed to keep
  26. a server process running for any useful length of time.)
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  29. What? Me .sig?
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