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- From: "stephen dawson" <stephen.dawson@canrem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: i've seen nt......
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.1480.26283@dosgate>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 20:46:21 EST
- Reply-To: "stephen dawson" <stephen.dawson@canrem.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Lines: 45
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- Roger Ramsey writes
-
- RR>Why? The loophole still exists. A secure system should be secure and
- RR>Microsoft has also stated that it is developing a device driver
- RR>intermediary that will allow some drivers to talk to the NT API to ease
- RR>transition. In PC Week, corporate evaluators were quoted as saying that
- RR>while the concept of a secure system as defined by the NT API was "a pain
- RR>in the ass" it was also a recognizable and necessary inconvenience that
- RR>they were willing to put up with for enhanced system security.
-
- You can get the SAME level of security with OS/2 by not installing
- the DOS and Windows support, and setting IOPL=NO.
-
- By using OS/2, a company can standardize, and allow their
- non-critical stations to run DOS apps, and their critical stations
- can be secure.
-
- RR>That means that the disks will go to manufacturing. it does not mean that
- RR>it will be in the retail channel. This is a scenario that should be
- RR>familiar to an OS/2 user since IBM "went gold" on March 31 but retail
- RR>product didn't show up in appreciable quantities until a month later.
-
- Yes. But *I* will be astonished if NT goes gold before late spring
- '92 unless a LOT of compromises are introduced.
-
- RR>No argument from me, but what about users who don't wish to pay long
- RR>distance charges? The fixes should be mailed automatically to all
- RR>registered users, if only as a display of good faith.
-
- The toll charges are cheaper than the shipping & handling and media
- charge. The OS/2 patches have been distributed around all major
- BBS's, so no one needs to call distance, even.
-
- And, PC mag estimates that over 2/3 of PC users have a modem!
-
- STEPHEN Look through the Windows and you will see OS/2!
- ^^^^^^^ :-) Walking and chewing gum at the same time.
-
- stephen.dawson@canrem.com
- Entered 09-02-92 at 5:33pm in Downsview, Ontario
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