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- From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 05:46:21 GMT
- Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <1992Dec28.202743.17526@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- >That's not what I see. The only people I've seen claim that Windows is not
- >an OS are fanatics of one system or another. Unfortunately, they run into
- >serious trouble when they try to classify it as something else...
-
- What else CAN you classify it as? There has NEVER, in my memory, been
- a program that acted similarly. Windows seems to get a classification
- of incompetence all its own. Unfortunately NT promises to be that and
- more.
-
- >I always found it rather well-designed and powerful. It has complete
- >device independence for graphics, sound, and printing devices. How many
- >kludges and hacks are this flexible?
-
- Only one, obviously. Doesn't your average MS-DOS game come with lots
- of drivers? Think of it like that. This program happens to have lots
- of drivers, and gives the user programs access to them through support
- functions.
-
- It's an "operating environment", I guess. That's what Gates had
- called it upon its misconception, before the miscreants rose up to
- deem it an "OS". I still hold that it is nothing more than an
- Operating Environment. While an OS is also an Operating Environment,
- an OE is NOT an OS. It's kind of like a square is a type of
- rectangle, but a rectangle is not a square type of deal.
-
- >As is Windows.
-
- Usable, yes. But it has no merits as an operating system.
-
- >How can you say that without ever seeing the released product?
-
- Must I use every operating system out there to understand the
- theories, practices, architectures, and workings within? I think not.
- At least I hope not, or I'll be buying thousands of operating systems
- just so I have a clue. I find that NT has the best and worst of many
- worlds. It has a powerful filesystem architecture similar to that of
- the Amiga. It has an advanced microkernal (though flaws about its
- operation are still undetermined), LOTS of features, and a size that
- could give many UNIX systems a run for your performance.
- Unfortunately, I don't believe NT can compete with unix. And it may
- have to.
-
- Greg
-
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