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- From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
- Subject: Re: i've seen nt......
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.051154.26410@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- References: <1992Sep2.1480.26260@dosgate>
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 05:11:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.1480.26260@dosgate> "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com> writes:
- >
- >Why? The loophole still exists. A secure system should be secure and
- >Microsoft has also stated that it is developing a device driver
- >intermediary that will allow some drivers to talk to the NT API to ease
- >transition. In PC Week, corporate evaluators were quoted as saying that
- >while the concept of a secure system as defined by the NT API was "a pain
- >in the ass" it was also a recognizable and necessary inconvenience that
- >they were willing to put up with for enhanced system security.
-
- OS/2 has built in hooks for security, it just isn't shipped in the
- general version, since not everyone wants it. If this doesn't cover
- every loophole, then you can disable the ability to run DOS programs.
- The OS/2 DOS sessions are meant to be useful. The way NT claims to virtualize
- DOS sessions would make them as usable as SoftPC: sure it's virtualized, but
- isit useful.
- >
- >SD>Microsoft has been quoted in PC Week as stating emphatically that NT
- >SD>will go gold in '92.
-
- and Microsoft never lets shipping dates slide, so it'll ship, of course.
- >
- >SD>As for the OS/2 CSD, I have all the fixes already, downloaded
- >SD>directly from IBM's BBS in Toronto.
- >SD>
- >SD>This is far better than waiting for disks to arrive in the mail!
- >
- >No argument from me, but what about users who don't wish to pay long
- >distance charges? The fixes should be mailed automatically to all
- >registered users, if only as a display of good faith.
-
- the way the Windows 3.1 patch was? Aside from TrueType, nearly all the stuff
- in 3.1 should have been shipped as a patch 6 months after 3.0, as MS promised.
-
- >
- >Roj
- >
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