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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!recepsen.aa.msen.com!umcc.umich.edu!edcen!dexter!jsr From: jsr@dexter.mi.org (Jay S. Rouman) Subject: Re: Heh... Message-ID: <DDvnz9.ApM@dexter.mi.org> Organization: Private System References: <41ip4t$900@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <MICHAELV.95Aug24235822@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 17:45:09 GMT Lines: 17 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5222 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:730 In article <MICHAELV.95Aug24235822@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: >In article <41ip4t$900@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) writes: > Hey kids, check this out. Micro$oft recently put up a bunch of > web servers dedicated to Win95 things. They have names like >Your point being? If they're going to run a Unix server, they have to >run some type of Unix on it, correct? BSDI is a popular choice I think Bill's amusement (and mine) derives from the fact that Microsoft has been touting NT as the server OS to end all. Nobody doubts that Microsoft runs all kinds of computers and OS's internally, but this is exactly the kind of application for which NT is supposed to be so great. -- Jay Rouman (jsr@dexter.mi.org jsr@umcc.umich.edu NIC Handle: JSR) System Administrator, Education Central (jsr@edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu)