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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!alistair
- From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
- Subject: Re: Looking for rshd, telnetd, ftpd etc.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep04.005856.10123@microsoft.com>
- Date: 04 Sep 92 00:58:56 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Sep01.191707.28916@news.mentorg.com> <m0NgqB2w164w@underg.UUCP>
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- In article <m0NgqB2w164w@underg.UUCP> max@underg.UUCP (Max Cray) writes:
- >pbrooks@mentorg.com (Phil Brooks) writes:
- >
- >> 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.
-
- If someone thinks this dumb-terminal redirection of the command-line from
- Windows NT will server a significant market, then please write the code! With
- the Win32 SDK you've got all you need to do it. Create a process which listens
- to the comm port, pumps out a login: prompt when appropriate, takes a password,
- authenticates the user, then starts up a process with redirected stdin/stdout
- to that comm port. It sounds easy to me! -- Alistair
-