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- From: gthaker@fergie.dnet.ge.com (Gautam H. Thaker)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.research
- Subject: Re: WINDOWS/NT
- Message-ID: <18lnnmINN78b@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 20:44:38 GMT
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- In article <18iq26INNe58@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> rminnich@super.super.org (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
-
- Okay, folks, how about that Windows/NT? Judging by the reactions of the
- trade press and the vendors the game is over in operating systems.
- ...
- The current deal is hard to pass up: a CD-ROM for just $69.
- you get the os, compiler, library, 7600 pages of documentation.
- I have ordered my CD-ROM. Anybody else out there getting it?
-
- Can't say for sure, but NT will likely be the #1 selling OS in 93 (or at
- least 94.) I have never liked MS-DOS at all, but I hope NT will be better.
- I too was tempted to spend $69, but I believe that while you do get the
- final release of OS you do not get the final version of the compilers, etc.
- Also, the documentation is not in printed form, only on CD. So instead I
- have been running Linux on my 486/33 and must say it is great.
-
- NT will likely out sell others because:
-
- 1) It will be relatively cheap.(prob. cheaper than all others,
- SOlaris, SVR4, etc.)
- 2) Tons of applications (which is the only reason most people buy
- computers.)
- 3) Fragmentation of Unix sources in to:
- Solaris 2.0 (Sun want its cake and eat it too in that
- they say they are a "standard" SVR4, yet "better")
- OSF (How many years have we waited for a vendor to start
- shipping OSF/1 as their one and only OS?)
- USL's Unix "Lite"
- UNIX SRV4.
- Many others.
-
- 4) Continued confusion in Unix world because of going legal
- fights between USL/BSD/386BSD?BSD386/.
-
-
- As I see it Solaris will be the major comp. to NT.
-
- BTW, what is the view of the POSIX standard(s) in the comp.os.research
- community? If these standards are real and sufficient, and if
- NT is POSIX compliant and UNIX is POSIX compliant isn't the point
- sort of moot?
-
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