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- From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Subject: Re: End of NeXT(It's only the beginning...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.183817.22204@qb.rhein-main.de>
- Sender: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Reply-To: vhs@rhein-main.de
- References: <1992Dec31.100912.2524@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 18:38:17 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <1992Dec31.100912.2524@microsoft.com> edwardj@microsoft.com (Edward Jung)
- writes:
- > filibert@ohsu.edu writes:
- >
- > >Unfortunately, the problems are generally all solved
- > >before Microsoft gets to work on a solution. If this isn't
- > >the case, then could you possibly tell us one problem that
- > >NT solves that isn't solved already by NeXTStep, or OS/2
- > >for that matter?
- >
- [lots of low-level stuff about NT internals deleted]
- >
- > I expect these OS's are all about the same overall from
- > a technical standpoint. NT is not a super-standout, but
- > it is a reasonable foundation upon which subsequent technology
- > can be built. It is that work which is more interesting --
- > again, base OS services are not that interesting any more.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Then why do you cite nothing but base OS services as positive
- points for NT?
-
- --
- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@qb.rhein-main.de)
-
- Looks good on the outside, but -
- intel inside
-