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- From: booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: NT not multiuser, then Unix is not a competing OS
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 19:02:28 GMT
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- Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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- In the most recent issue of Corporate Computing there is a very bried overview
- of Windows NT. One thing which absolutely floored me was their claim that
- NT is *not* a multiuser system. Is this true? I find it exceedingly hard
- to imagine this possible.
-
- If it is true, then why have I heard so much talk about NT being a threat to
- the Unix marketplace? A single-user OS might be a threat to Unix in the world
- of micros, but I don't think Unix has a very large share of that market
- in the first place. Why would anyone want a single-user OS on a larger
- platform? And why port NT to platforms based on the Alpha or MIPS chips? Are
- there small systems being built around these chips which one might to run
- single-user?
-
- Can anyone elaborate on this?
-
- mb
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- Mark Boolootian booloo@llnl.gov +1 510 423 1948
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