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From: Marines! (Marines!)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI Vs. NT... NT looses big
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 10:59:36 GMT
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Mark Hunnibell <markh@connix.com> wrote:

>Maybe someone has a valid answer for this or its already been discussed, 
>but my guess is that if NT was as versatile as some of you are saying, 
>Microsoft *surely* would have preferred using it as the O/S for the WWW 
>servers it installed for the rollout of Windows95.  If *Microsoft* agreed 
>that BSDI 2.x was a better solution, what else is there left to be said?

Lots!

we are comparing NT and Unix based on their inherent
capabilities/deficiencies as a Network Operating System, not as a
WEBSERVER!!

don't presume to think that BSDI's entrance into MS's Win95 rollout
was some sort of strategic decision based on some high level executive
conference behind closed steel doors with a parking lot full of black
Mercedes sedans. 

at the time, some mid-level drone probably authorized it because it
was a respectable host for webservice at a time when NT-based WWW
servers had MUCH less of a track record (and they still do).

by your logic, i maintain that MacOS is a superior NOS over NT and
Unix because it does faster Gaussian blurs in Adobe Photoshop. since
BSDI uses Macs to do page layout, what else is there left to be said?