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- From: shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: WinNT's missing features?
- Keywords: WinNT, Unix
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.111216.14563@sinkhole.unf.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 11:12:16 GMT
- References: <14318@borg.cs.unc.edu> <1992Aug05.193807.22801@microsoft.com>
- Organization: University of North Florida, Jacksonville
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Aug05.193807.22801@microsoft.com> johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall) writes:
- >In article lateiner@cs.unc.edu (Joshua Lateiner) writes:
- >| To everyone at Microsoft working on WinNT:
- >| 1) The ability for NT to act as a true multi-user O/S (ie, have several
- >| different users, each with their own personalized environment, all working
- >| off of one machine). If WinNT is really supposed to be an O/S, a GUI and a
- >| NOS (Network Operating System) all rolled into one, then this lacking feature
- >| surely compromises its ability as an NOS. Serious computer installations need
- >| a real multi-user O/S. What is the point of running NT on a high-end
- >| server (I heard MS folks say they wanted to position WinNT as a server O/S as
- >| well as a client) as opposed to running Unix, if one would have to give up the
- >
- >486DX/33 boxes now cost less, in real terms, than terminals used to.
- >Pushing processing power down with centralized servers with multiple
- >people sharing the centralized CPU is no longer a compelling strategy
- >compared to giving everyone a CPU and sharing resources.
- >
-
- Yep, scratch the multi-user and across the network X-style environment
- when talking about WinNT and Win 3.1. However, the argument still remains
- that out of the box, they both should allow for personalized setups for
- individual users (the Mac should be able to do this to). In a corporate
- environment, it's very reasonable to assume that more than one user can
- and will use the same box and each user would like to setup their specific
- environment with as few adjustments as possible (upon their initial setup).
- It's a human factors issue and I'm very surprised Microsoft and Apple (most
- of all Apple) have not explored (and published) the possibilities to
- this point.
-
- Steve Hite
- shite@sinkhole.unf.edu
-