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- From: cfortier@genghis.news (Chris Fortier)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: NT shall slay UNIX
- Message-ID: <CFORTIER.93Jan27164341@genghis.news>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 00:43:41 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: ifbb657@emx.cc.utexas.edu's message of 27 Jan 1993 16:49:04 -0600
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- In article <1k73h1INN83o@emx.cc.utexas.edu> ifbb657@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) writes:
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- I am interested in hearing debate about UNIX vs NT (When it comes out.).
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- NT has one quality that UNIX has: An innate resistance to viruses.
- Because of the protected mode execution of apps, one app cannot infect
- another unless you are running as the Administrator. Because of this,
- most virii will be hard to spread. I do not know about boot sector
- viruses, though.
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-
- This is not necessarily true. Someone will surely be able to find the
- holes in NT, and exploit them, spreading viruses. It is harder, but it
- is not impossible.
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- Compared to Unix, NT is relatively easy to install and use, is built for
- portability, and binaries on one platform *WILL* work for another w/o
- recompiling. NT also is not built on a rickety 20 year old platform of
- hacks and patches like UNIX.
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- NT binaries are inherently machine specific. You will not be able to take a
- MIPS EXE and run it on the Intel architecture. If programmers adhere to the
- Win32 APIs, however, you are guaranteed source level portability.
- You will need to simly recompile the source.
-
-
- UNIX is a TRUE multiple user OS though, while NT can only have one
- user on at a time.
-
- Please correct if there are any inaccuracies in my statements.
-