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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:24:07 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211190124.10@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <BxLz6x.EL7@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov13.232053.7061@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Nov16.075931@eklektix.com> <id.U_0V.SJ3@ferranti.com>
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- In article <id.U_0V.SJ3@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.075931@eklektix.com> rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
- >> The only reason SysV is alive is because of SVR4, and the only reason any-
- >> one wants SVR4 is because of the BSDisms.
- >
- >Frankly, most people in the commercial world couldn't give a shit about BSD
- >features. What they want is (a) usable MS-DOS/Windows emulation, (b) native
- >commercial software, and (c) a system they don't need a guru to support. All
- >the new BSD features are just confusing them.
- >
- >System V doesn't give you all this, yet, but it's a damn sight closer than
- >BSD. It's probably even better than most PC-based networks as a multiuser
- >solution. Unfortunately, I suspect NT will do all this better and UNIX on
- >the desktop is doomed whether it's SV or BSD.
-
- Windows NT. Microsoft people, who have been posting in comp.os.os2.advocacy,
- have basically said that NT will not come with software to support multiple
- terminals/logins. The most likely use of NT will be as a server for systems
- running Windows 3.1. The actual name of the NT product is Windows 3.1 NT.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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