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- From: "stephen dawson" <stephen.dawson@canrem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: nt, an assessment
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.2712.2814@dosgate>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 09:57:06 EST
- Reply-To: "stephen dawson" <stephen.dawson@canrem.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Lines: 43
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- Bill Dehaan writes
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- BD>Largely irrelevant to YOU, perhaps. Not to others. Posix and security
- BD>requirements make using OS/2 very difficult for government contract bids;
- BD>NT meets (and exceeds) these requirements.
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- Actually Microsoft has been surprised about the security issue. It
- seems certification is awarded to a COMBINATION of hardware and OS.
- That means that NT, itself, cannot be certified.
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- As for POSIX, it is simply an API translation, no?
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- BD>It would, possibly. What makes you think that NT will slip to 2Q93? It is
- BD>currently listed as going out 4Q92, although consensus is that it will not
- BD>be ready until 1Q93. Are you basing this on fact, or is it speculation?
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- An educated guess. NT is not yet in beta, and it is a very complex
- project.
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- SD>multi-processor version in November.
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- BD>But not this. Where did you hear this?
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- The press releases about the (Parallan) 295 server.
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- SD>There is the Windows user who is happy. If the user is still using
- SD>Windows after OS/2 2.0 has been around for a year, the user doesn't
- SD>need NT. That user will be waiting for Windows 4.0.
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- BD>Which many people think NT is.
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- That isn't what Microsoft WAS saying.
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- STEPHEN Look through the Windows and you will see OS/2!
- ^^^^^^^ :-) Walking and chewing gum at the same time.
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- stephen.dawson@canrem.com
- Entered 07-23-92 at 7:59am in Downsview, Ontario
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