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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
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- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 05:22:01 GMT
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- > I have a 386/33 clone at home running WIN3.1, and that one "freezes"
- > once a day, more if there are any modem-related activities. The same
- > machine, btw, had no problem running SVR4.
- >
- > Given my WIN experiense, I do not expect NT to reach a level of robustness
- > required to run mission-critical applications for many years,
-
- You *are* aware that NT puts processes in individual protected address
- spaces, runs most if not all of them in user mode rather than supervisor
- mode, and preemptively schedules them, right?
-
- I.e., the underpinnings of it, from everything I've heard, bear little
- resemblances to the underpinnings of DOS+MS Windows.
-
- That doesn't say that Microsoft won't have difficulty coming up with an
- OS that's robust enough to run mission-critical applications; it just
- says that, while you might be correct in assuming MS may have difficulty
- making a real OS such as NT work (I don't know if that's a correct
- assumption or not), you shouldn't just do a straightforward
- extrapolation from DOS+Windows to NT, because NT is much different from
- DOS+Windows inside.
-
- The window-system part of it may be different; dunno how much of the MS
- Windows GUI code was recycled for Windows NT, and how much of it was
- reimplemented.
-
- >and when
- > it finally does, 32-bit OS technology will be mostly confined to
- > desktop anyway.
-
- I.e., non-desktop machines will be 64-bit machines?
-