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- From: reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Jim -- MLO3-6/B9 -- DTN 223-5747)
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- Subject: RE: Impressions of Windows NT
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 09:53:51 PDT
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- A co-worker (and user) thought he'd share his opinions on NT:
-
- In article <1992Jul28.152304.28642@chpc.utexas.edu>, apas611@chpc.utexas.edu (David Boles) writes:
- >
- >The presentation told us about the structure of NT and how user processes
- >relate to it. If you look at it in light of NT having started life as
- >OS/2 3.0, things make a lot of sense. There is a, IMHO, cleaner overall
- >system architecture. However, after describing a system that is capable
- >of being an upgrade of OS/2 2.0 we were told that Msoft intends to market
- >this system for high-end x86 PC's (486-33 and up), RISC workstations, and
- >uni- and multi-processor servers.
-
- Well, in a year's time 486 PC's will cost less than 386 PC's do today.
- 486 machines will effectively become the low to mid end of the market.
- Basically, you will run MS-DOS/Windows on the smallest machines, and
- NT on anything from an ancient 486 on up. I don't see what is wrong
- with this strategy.
-
- >We were then told that the system is _not_ (yes that is a negative) multi-user.
- >The response from the audience was rolling laughter and jeers.
-
- This statement is flatly wrong.
-
- >So what we are going to be offered sometime in 1993, is an OS that is
- >partly targeted at things like a Silicon Graphics 4-8 R4000 processor
- >compute/file server that will only allow one person on at a time.
-
- Wrong.
-
- >Further, since NT is 32-bit, users won't be able to address all of their
- >memory (physical + disk swap, the R4000 is a 64 bit chip because 32-bits
- >isn't enough address space).
-
- Wrong. The R4000 is a 32-bit chip. NT is 32 bits now, and has hooks
- for 64-bit support.
-
- >With existing software, this machine can act as a file and compute server
- >for 30-40 people.
-
- True.
-
- >Start clicking, however, and you quickly realize that things
- >are _very_ shallow (i.e., fancy looking and sounding icons have nothing
- >but simple text display windows that pop up when activated, the help system
- >wasn't working in the examples I tried, etc.).
-
- I am using NT 6--12 hours a day. It is very robust. Some of the tools don't
- have all the icons hooked up. His point about the help system not being
- hooked up in the SDK is correct. Some of the tools definitely don't have
- everything turned on. However, it is a preliminary SDK release. It isn't
- even the final SDK, which itself would be before the external full field
- test. Hooking up tool icons is a very minor thing to fix.
-
- .............................................................................
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