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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: <None> (Should be Open Systems, bloody NEWS system...)
- Message-ID: <id.2K0W.G37@ferranti.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:51:39 GMT
- References: <jdd.724022716@cdf.toronto.edu> <1992Dec14.191335.2834@lsl.co.uk> <BzGL07.2wK@dscomsa.desy.de>
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- In article <BzGL07.2wK@dscomsa.desy.de> Hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:
- > I would guess that W/NTs single user functionality should outstrip that of
- > UNIX fairly easily.
-
- You seem to have a strong opinion about this, so could you explain to me
- precisely how the UNIX API is lacking, and what specific features of NT
- would be impossible under a UNIX API. Why did Microsoft have to create
- a completely new API from scratch, and implement it in such a way that
- programs using it are entirely insulated from their UNIX API environment
- (POSIX shell)?
-
- > Security in a multiuser environment is provided in the main by the
- > filestore.
-
- Well for UNIX, where access to virtually all system resources is provided
- through the filestore, I would agree. But NT has half a dozen different
- mechanisms for interacting with the system... how can multiuser security
- be managed if it only protects a minor part of the system?
-
- > system which can run existing apps for starters and move up to better systems
- > than have the initial OS/2 "throw it all away approach."
-
- Since OS/2 and NT have virtually the same level of backwards-compatibility
- with DOS, how do you make out that the OS/2 approach is any way diferent?
-
- I'm sorry, but you seem to be discussing a completely different set of
- software packages than I'm familiar with or have been discussed in the
- media.
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