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- From: jay@uacn.alaska.edu (Jay Beavers)
- Subject: Re: RFD: comp.os.nt
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.172801.11060@raven.alaska.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:28:01 GMT
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- Tim Pierce (twpierce@unix.amherst.edu) wrote:
- : In article <8549@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
-
- : >In article <1993Jan26.120211.6093@pollux.lu.se> magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson) writes:
- : >
- : >>Naming the group comp.os.ms-windows.nt would imply that Windows NT is
- : >>some sort of derivative of MS Windows, which it is NOT. We should try
- : >>to keep the namespace hierarchy meaningful.
-
- : >Fire up Windows NoT. Then tell me it isn't a derivative of MS Windows.
-
- : Rather than not being a derivative, it's not a subproduct. The above
- : hierarchical scheme suggests that NT is some peculiar dialect of
- : MS-Windows -- seeing as how NT is an operating system whereas
- : MS-Windows is not, that hardly seems to be the case. Give it a
- : parallel hierarchy.
-
- Well, while Windows NT is by no means a subproduct, neither is MS-Windows
- for Workgroups a 'subproduct' of MS-Windows, but I'd certainly expect to
- see any discussion for WFWG in the same c.o.ms-w hierarchy.
-
- The fact of the matter is that Windows NT, while based upon different
- underpinnings, has been designed and is being marketed as a member of the
- Microsoft Windows family. Whether you think this is a good idea or whether
- you think this is true from an operating systems point of view doesn't really
- matter as much as how it will be perceived.
-
- Furthermore, Windows NT shares a very large number of features with it's less
- powerful bretheren. It has the same user interface, it uses the same software
- (plus a little), it uses the same APIs to a large extent, and it's marketed
- the same way.
-
- Ah, as another example, OS/2 2.0 has been totally rewritten from OS/2 1.x
- to include many new features, a new API set, a new interface, and to be
- compatible with different types of software. Yet it still resides in the
- same hierarchy as OS/2 1.x despite the fact that many people have stayed
- with OS/2 1.x for the time being.
-
- I see the new hierarchy looking like:
-
- comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- .announce
- .apps
- .misc
- .network -- To discuss WFWG changes & NT's netwrk
- .nt -- To discuss Windows NT's peculiarities
- .programmer.misc
- .programmer.network -- WinSock, SMNP, NetDDE, etc?
- .programmer.tools
- .programmer.win32 -- To discuss the new APIs
- .setup
-
- --
- Jay C. Beavers
- jay@seaspray.uacn.alaska.edu
-