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From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
Message-ID: <1992Nov22.073910.21431@netcom.com>
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Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:39:10 GMT
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merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
: 
: Windows/NT is likely to have BSD and AT&T/USL UNIX for lunch.  It supposedly
: offers POSIX, Win16, Win32, SMP, networking, and a whole truckload of other
: stuff on a single optical disk for easy installation and operation.  I have
: not seen an X11R5 product announcement -- but it can't be ffar from release.
: I suspect most desktop systems will be running Windows/NT by the end of 1993
: -- and with rare exceptions i386/i486 based SYSV systems will bite the dust.
: 
: The large scale mainframe market may still be up for grabs -- but Windows/NT
: as a transportable scalable architecture (provided the claims are met) will
: probably make a very attractive cross spectrum operating system product.

FYI - I have had betas of Win/NT since July. It may try to offer everything
to everyone, but it doesn't always deliver. It will be years - not just
one before it will be stable enough to consider it an alternative 
to Unix. Also, Unix is a multi-user system. At present Win/NT
is only multi-threaded. It CANNOT handle multiple users simultaneously
using the system, it offers only a windowing interface, and no
method for windowing over the network such as Xwindows currently
offers.

Mary Morris
mesm@netcom.com

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