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- From: brian%jaguar.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill)
- Subject: Re: I've seen NT......and I'll take OS/2 2.0 thanks!
- Date: 22 Aug 92 15:36:44 MDT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.153645.8453@hellgate.utah.edu>
- Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
- References: <1992Aug14.202253.33580@watson.ibm.com> <1992Aug16.063037.3621@microsoft.com> <OLAVT.92Aug22215004@ulrik.uio.no>
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- In article <OLAVT.92Aug22215004@ulrik.uio.no> olavt@ulrik.uio.no (Olav Torvund) writes:
- >(I have not seen NT, just read that the following information was
- >given to developers recently:)
- >
-
- >- It will not be possible to run all existing DOS and Windows programs
- >under NT.
- >
- >- DOS and Win 3.1 (!) programs that do direct disk access or uses
- >expansion boards will not run under NT.
- This is true. PC Week has a good supplement this week on OS/2 2.0 and
- Windows NT. In the end it is not possible to have C2 security and allow
- programs to directly access hardware. OS/2 chose not to have the security
- thus allowing programs to access the hardware (which can (and does) allow
- DOS programs to crash the OS, or otherwise do naughty things).
-
- Windows NT forces programs to go through intercepted hardware accesses that
- are bounds checked, and then performed for the program. This of course
- is slower, and only those device registers directly accounted for in the
- DOS subsystem can be used. As I've said before OS/2 has NT beat hands
- down in this ONE area. Again, referring back to my recent post proposing
- the direction OS/2 should go in.... OS/2 should seek the middle ground.
- Keep the DOS compatibility, and concentrate specifically on the Desktop
- user's needs. OS/2 would need to lessen it's DOS support too if it were to
- try to fill the same area that NT is trying to fill (i.e. "real" security).
- NT has at least a two year lead getting symmetric multiprocessing and heavy-duty
- networking, and other high-end features in... OS/2 is better off not trying
- to be an NT-wannabe.
-
- >
- >- Microsoft will no longer give any release date for NT (What a
- >surprise - it seems like it is delayed!)
- What an odd thing to say, Microsoft has never given a release date for NT...
- to this point, not even for the beta. The program development schedule
- calls for (at least did a few weeks ago) the beta to start in September
- and the final release to ship at the end of December. This schedule
- is likely to slip... some, why is that bad, wrong, or unexpected?
- Now if it did release according to the program development schedule... THAT
- would be news -- especially on a project it's size.
-
- >
- >Olav Torvund
- >Oslo, Norway
- >Olavt@jus.uio.no
-
-
- Brian
-