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- From: max@underg.UUCP (Max Cray)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Looking for rshd, telnetd, ftpd etc.
- Message-ID: <m0NgqB2w164w@underg.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 02:37:45 EDT
- References: <1992Sep01.191707.28916@news.mentorg.com>
- Organization: Underground Computing Foundation
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- pbrooks@mentorg.com (Phil Brooks) writes:
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- > While these capabilities might be less useful on a 386 with 8MB, they will be
- > extremely useful (perhaps indispensable) on Sequent and NCR multiprocessor
- > boxes and on the DEC Alpha box. I would imagine that a well configured Alpha
- > system would do very well competing with IBM AS/400's in the minicomputer mar
- > It will need to deal with terminals, multiple concurrent users, and remote ac
- > in order to do that though.
-
- Hmm..good question. I would think NT would have to deal with terminals, etc,
- to run on a mini. Maybe the scenario would be a Sequent connected to a
- bunch of 486s all running their own copy of NT?
-
- I agree with you, though. I think remote login would be very benificial.
- Maybe it is a fading concept, but a new OS should be backwards campatible
- in features. I mean a new OS ought to be able to do MORE things, not LESS.
-
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