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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 29 Dec 1994 18:13:30 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu's message of 29 Dec 1994 05:59:21 GMT
In article <3dtj7p$r5h@galaxy.ucr.edu> jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) writes:
In article <MICHAELV.94Dec27212856@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: >I think you're confused. Windows NT is nothing like the Mac OS or
>Windows 3.x. Windows NT is a full-blown multi-tasking
>multi-processing demand-paged protected-mode operating system, just
>like unix. Windows NT is nothing like the cooperative-multitasking in
>MacOS and/or Windows 3.x.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but I can't help but point out that
NT is also nothing like UNIX, either.... (at least from a practical
viewpoint...)
There's no parade to rain on. But, I did not say NT was "like UNIX".
I said that the NT kernel had the same protection, tasking and memory
management capabilities as unix (plus some unix doesn't have). Words
have subtle meanings -- pay better attention to them.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com michaelv@iastate.edu
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
Working NetBSD ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4c, PC532
In progress: DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), VAX, Sun4m
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