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- From: oleg@watson.ibm.com (Oleg Vishnepolsky)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 vs NT features list, Revision 1.8
- Sender: news@watson.ibm.com (NNTP News Poster)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.153338.23129@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:33:38 GMT
- News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.12 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
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- Reply-To: oleg@watson.ibm.com (Oleg Vishnepolsky)
- Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
- References: <1992Sep7.172652.1686@hellgate.utah.edu>
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- In <1992Sep7.172652.1686@hellgate.utah.edu> brian%jaguar.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
- > ...
- >
- > Features in the pre-beta Windows NT but not in OS/2 2.0 GA
- > ...
- >
- > Networking
- > TCP/IP
- > Peer-peer file and printer sharing.
- > Ability to support multiple vendors as transports
- > w/common admin.
- > Good network admin facilities.
- > SNMP
- > # Berkeley sockets (WinSock compliant).
- > Named pipes.
- > (Both NT and OS/2 GA have non-networked ones.)
- > Event logging.
- > (Both NT and OS/2 GA have this in non-networked form.)
- > ...
- >
- > Corrections of grammar, spelling, etc are welcomed.
- >
- > Brian
-
- I do not understand why you list TCP/IP, SNMP and sockets not being in
- OS/2 2.0 GA. True, these are optional packages that one can buy either
- from IBM or third party vendors, but what's the NT's advantage here ?
-
- Oleg
-