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Xref: sserve comp.unix.solaris:554 comp.unix.bsd:8023 Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!mesm 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> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1e57peINNg87@neuro.usc.edu> Distribution: inet Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:39:10 GMT Lines: 30 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 -- Mary E. S. Morris | The future exists first in imagination, then mesm@netcom.COM | in will, then in reality. -- Galivan Burwell ===================================================================== Netcom - Online Communication Services San Jose, CA