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- From: msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith)
- Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
- Message-ID: <a2fnl#c.msmith@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 20:12:07 GMT
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- References: <1992Aug29.104619.1323@dlpinc00.rn.com> <64910@cup.portal.com> <1992Aug29.132709.5155@hellgate.utah.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug29.125049.3797@hellgate.utah.edu> brian%jaguar.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug29.104619.1323@dlpinc00.rn.com> dlparker@dlpinc00.rn.com (David L. Parker) writes:
- >>In article <64786@cup.portal.com> TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:
- >>>
- >>>As to waiting for NT, without being insulting, why would you think NT will
- >>>have any more or less problems than OS/2? They're cut from the same
- >>>cloth, so to speak. And surely, one will be as trouble prone as the
- >>>
- >>
- >>I'm curious - what do you mean, "... cut from the same cloth..."? As I
- >>understand it, NT is based on/derived from the Mach microkernel, which,
- >>if true would seem to me to represent a complete departure from DOS and
- >>OS/2.
- >
- >It is not based on Mach (thank God!) but you are right it is a complete
- >departure from DOS and OS/2 in the sense it's a total, portable rewrite
- >that has a modern microkernel-based design.
- >
- >Mainly what it inherits for OS/2 is a portion of its API, though NT's
- >version is considerably cleaner.
- >
-
- Could you please give details of where the NT API is considerably
- cleaner or is this another example of rampant use of STURGILL.EXE where
- the mere fact that it is NT makes it cleaner and better although
- no evidence or facts are PROVIDED to support this statement.
-
- The rampant almost rabid use of STURGILL.EXE is getting tiresome
- If you have facts present them if you have opinions make sure you make
- it clear that they are just that.
-
-
- Martin Smith
- msmith@netcom.com | Republican election platform == Religious Fascism
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-
- >What he was probably referring to is that NT started out to be OS/2 3.0.
- >For some odd reason this seems to imply to people that OS/2 2.0 and OS/2
- >3.0 were related at the design level. There's some truth in terms
- >of influence on API features, but all accounts I see say that 3.0 was a
- >total rewrite.
- >
- >>--
- >>Dave Parker
- >>Automated Data Management Services, Pleasant Hill, MO 64080-1331
- >>(816) 987-5167/5218 voice/fax
- >
- >
- >Brian
- >--
- >C. Brian Sturgill *** OS/2 2.0 is for YOU! ***
- >University of Utah Microsoft needs some competition, but
- >Center for Software Science -I- want to be one of the many using NT.
- >brian@cs.utah.edu; CIS: 70363,1373 :-) :-) :-)
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