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- From: TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 bigot meets NT....
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 17:50:24 GMT
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- Honestly, what do these 'advantages' you've pointed out do for
- the average home user who just wants to use power of the new intel
- 32-bit processers?
-
- In article <1992Dec25.110655.27320@u.washington.edu>,
- robs@hardy.u.washington.edu (Robert Suh) writes:
- >
- >Well, I can name lots of reasons...
- >
- >1) C2 Security - I know lots of places that Security of data on the PC or
- >LAN is a MUST. Can't have someone just walk up to a PC/Node and take a look
- >at all the data on it.
-
- I'm pretty trusting of people I let use my computer, or hook up
- to it for that matter. The only computer I'm going to be hooked up
- to will be the other computer in my house, and I don't really need
- to keep the files secure from my girlfriend...
-
- >
- >2) Cross Platform - Wouldn't it be nice to be able to sit in front of either
- >a PC, MIPS, Alpha, or almost any other system (Thanks HAL ) and know that
- >Windows NT has the ability to run on it? I know thats a BIG Plus for some of
- >the larger mixed - environment workplaces.
-
- This whole cross-platform thing is a little confusing. From
- what I understand, only the OS is cross platform, and the programs
- must all be recompiled in order to run on them. So, let's say I
- have a lot of money invested in NT software for Intel machines.
- Then I decide in the future that I want an Alpha machine. I'll have
- to go out and buy all of my software again. Shouldn't I have an OS
- that's designed to take advantage of the special properties of the
- hardware instead? It would end up costing the same, and my OS would
- end up being more powerful.
- Of course, if the same software could be used, things would be
- much easier and cheaper, but too many abstracting layers would need
- to be used in order for the system to be useable.
-
- >
- >3) Win32s - What more to say?
-
- This is more an advantage for DOS/Windows than it is for
- Windows NT. In fact, it almost seems like a disadvantage for NT.
-
- >
- >4) Multiuser support - Albeit, not so great as some variants of UN*X, but it's
- >a lot better than what OS/2 offers 'out of the box'.
-
- This has also never been clarified. The multi-user support
- seems more like distributed networking than dumb-terminal support.
- So, in order to use the multi-user part of the system, a person
- would need at least two computers with a large amount of RAM and HD
- space.
-
- >
- >etc...
- >
-
- OK
-
- In the end, I can't think of *anything* that would cause me to like
- NT any more than I like OS/2. Yes, I have the October Beta, but
- it's not loaded up (since it doesn't support Adaptec 1522 SCSI and
- my ATI Graphics Vantage. Besides, it's a bear to get working if
- Boot manager is on the Disk).
-
-
- Timothy Miller
-
-