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- From: pmoore@hemel.bull.co.uk (Paul Moore)
- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.124711.17441@uk03.bull.co.uk>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 12:47:11 GMT
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- rjsmith@iron.hq.aflc.af.mil (Randy Smith) writes:
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- >Let's look at Windows NT. Microsoft has said that NT is for high-end PCs and
- >RISC-based machines, it has integrated networking support, *real* multitasking,
- >and [my opinion] will be too expensive for the "common" end-user PC. So NT is
- >clearly going after the PC server market where Novell has something like
- >70-80% of the market. Getting the rights to the best multitasking OS around
-
- What is this man talking about! UNIX has a lot of things going for it but
- technical superiority isn't one of them. I assume thats what he means by 'best'.
- UNIX was specifically written not to be very clever. I can only assume that
- he has never seen a 'proper' operating system. This shows , however, that
- commercial success (or even non-commercial success) is not related to
- technical excelence - it is usually a matter of being in the right place
- at the right time (and being virtually free to start with - as UNIX was).
-
- >that has had something like 20 years of development and who knows how many
- >actual manyears of development sounds like a pretty good idea to me. Also
- >NetWare 4.0 has been written in C so it's fairly portable. UNIX systems have
- >been kinda shunned by the whole PC LAN office environment and this may be
- >the way to bring it all together.
-
- >Good luck to Novell and death to Windows NT!
-
- >--Randy--
-
- >--
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Randy J. Smith DoD #2022 '85 CB450SC
- >C.E.T.A. Corp rjsmith@iron.hq.aflc.af.mil
-
- >"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments
- >for going on believing as we already do."
- > - James Harvey Robinson
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------
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