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- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: Windows NT Report
- Message-ID: <9301050843.02@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 13:43:02 GMT
- Article-I.D.: rmkhome.9301050843.02
- References: <id.JO3W.L13@ferranti.com> <9212250048.05@rmkhome.UUCP> <1993Jan5.054841.20809@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Reply-To: rmkhome!rmk@merk.com (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Lines: 46
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- In article <1993Jan5.054841.20809@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Peter.Mayne@cao.mts.dec.com writes:
- >
- >In article <9212250048.05@rmkhome.UUCP>, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >
- >>According to my friends who have to program for it, NT has no relation to
- >>any operating system known to man, and they wish it would go away.
- >
- >Well, given the Win32 API based on the Windows API, and something that
- >looks very similar to VMS internally, I find this very hard to
- >believe.
-
- I know about the Win32 API, but that's pretty much the GUI shell
- interface. Yes?
-
- If AT&T wins it's suit against BSDI, I wonder if DEC will decide to sue
- Microsoft?
-
- >>The Windows 3.x support on NT is such that a hacker could easily write a
- >>Windows app that would walk right through NT's security.
- >
- >Please tell us more about this security hole.
-
- From what I understand, Windows 3.x apps under NT ignore the permission
- bits on files except for those already compatible with MSDOS. This has
- been discussed on comp.os.os2.advocacy, and the "very vocal" people who
- post there from Microsoft have not attempted to refute this.
-
- >Peter Mayne | My statements, not Digital's.
- >Digital Equipment Corporation |
- >Canberra, ACT, Australia | "AXP!": Bill the Cat
-
- DEC Australia may be very bullish on Alpha systems running NT, but the
- DEC people I know here locally ( Massachusetts - near "The Mill" ) seem
- to think it is a joke. They believe that OpenVMS and OSF/1 will sell
- the Alpha.
-
- My friends who will have to program on Alpha based systems consider the
- October beta for Intel systems to be crap.
-
- In a two page newspaper article that came from DEC marketing, they only
- mentioned NT once, as an alternative OS on the bottom of the line $7000US
- Alpha PC. The availability would be sometime in 1994.
-
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- Rick Kelly rmkhome!rmk@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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