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- From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 bigot meets NT....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.220017.16223@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <1992Dec27.011721.23160@unvax.union.edu> <1992Dec27.171726.4660@grebyn.com> <1992Dec28.031753.13773@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:00:17 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1992Dec28.031753.13773@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >In article <1992Dec27.171726.4660@grebyn.com> mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli) writes:
- >> Unix machines. I find Unix crashes to be *very* rare, even running in 8
- >> or 12 megs on a PC. (and BTW, I have used SCO ODT 1.1 Unix SVR3.2 on a
- >> 386/20 with 12megs of memory, and it performs quite well. That's
- >> running X windows, TCP/IP, and NFS too. So if NT runs as poorly as
- >> Steve describes in 8 megs, MS has their work cut out for them.)
- >
- >Hi Marc
- >
- >It does and they sure do.....which was one of the points in my original
- >post.....:-)
- >
- >Steve
- >
- I'm willing to take your word for it. Your configuration sounds fair to
- me. When I think about it, I think that Microsoft may have tried to
- tackle too much at once with NT. Just think about all the
- subsystems/APIs that they are trying to include: DOS, 16-bit Windows,
- Win32, Win32s, 16-bit OS/2, and POSIX. Networking? Both TCP/IP and
- SPX/IPX, right? File systems? FAT, HPFS, and NTFS (keeping in mind
- that NTFS has all the security data associated with files which the
- other two don't-- that's got to be a pain in the rear, trying to enforce
- file system security when there may be filesystems that don't support
- the notion present). Then on top of all that add the security they're
- building in, new multi-threaded kernel, and the fact that this is the
- first from-scratch OS that MS has written on its own. Not to mention
- the fact that they are concurrently trying to port it to MIPS and Alpha.
- I imagine that they're pretty busy, and I would be extraordinarily
- surprised if NT shipped in any usable form before fall '93. Remember,
- Unix is 23 years old, and it's still maturing in some ways.
-
- In sum: point well taken. Microsoft better get cracking.
-
- --
- Marc Fraioli
- mfraioli@grebyn.com (So I'm a minimalist...)
-