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- From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
- Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.073910.21431@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:39:10 GMT
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- merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
- :
- : Windows/NT is likely to have BSD and AT&T/USL UNIX for lunch. It supposedly
- : offers POSIX, Win16, Win32, SMP, networking, and a whole truckload of other
- : stuff on a single optical disk for easy installation and operation. I have
- : not seen an X11R5 product announcement -- but it can't be ffar from release.
- : I suspect most desktop systems will be running Windows/NT by the end of 1993
- : -- and with rare exceptions i386/i486 based SYSV systems will bite the dust.
- :
- : The large scale mainframe market may still be up for grabs -- but Windows/NT
- : as a transportable scalable architecture (provided the claims are met) will
- : probably make a very attractive cross spectrum operating system product.
-
- FYI - I have had betas of Win/NT since July. It may try to offer everything
- to everyone, but it doesn't always deliver. It will be years - not just
- one before it will be stable enough to consider it an alternative
- to Unix. Also, Unix is a multi-user system. At present Win/NT
- is only multi-threaded. It CANNOT handle multiple users simultaneously
- using the system, it offers only a windowing interface, and no
- method for windowing over the network such as Xwindows currently
- offers.
-
- Mary Morris
- mesm@netcom.com
-
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- Mary E. S. Morris | The future exists first in imagination, then
- mesm@netcom.COM | in will, then in reality. -- Galivan Burwell
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