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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!canrem!dosgate!dosgate![richard.anstruther@canrem.com]
- From: "richard anstruther" <richard.anstruther@canrem.com>
- Subject: os/2 bigot meets nt
- Message-ID: <199225.3155.6030@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "richard anstruther" <richard.anstruther@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 25 Dec 92 14:25:17 EST
- Lines: 36
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- -> From: 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.
-
- Are you under the impression that NT has C2 security?
-
- -> 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.
-
- How many people have even seen an Alpha? The Intel world is where
- it's at.
-
- -> 3) Win32s - What more to say?
-
- How about "enables ISV's to write applications no more capable than
- they currently are under Windows 3.x, but pretend they're really
- NT apps"
-
- -> 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'.
-
- Just like the Alpha....How many multi-CPU boxes do you see out there?
- The intel x86 market is the only one that counts, and cross platform
- compatibility isn't going to make a product succeed. I'm sure
- having a Mac version available sells a few more copies of certain
- Windows apps (like in workplaces with PC's and Macs), but nothing
- to write home about and Macs far outnumber multi-CPU boxes.
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