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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T) Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!spool.mu.edu!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 21:20:42 GMT Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Message-ID: <9212061620.45@rmkhome.UUCP> References: <id.U_0V.SJ3@ferranti.com> <22947@venera.isi.edu> <9211260100.43@rmkhome.UUCP> <15780@auspex-gw.auspex.com> Lines: 27 In article <15780@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes: >>And NT will mostly be marketed as a server for Intel boxes running >>Windows 3.x apps. > >Hmm. Somebody from Microsoft appears to disagree with you; he claims >it's mainly intended as a *desktop* OS, at least at this point, not a >*server* OS: >Cameron Myhrvold, director of developer relations for Microsoft's Systems >Software division, said NT isn't meant to usurp Unix's place in the >server application world. Instead, he said, its aim is to bring networking >into corporations from the bottom up, beginning at the individual user >desktop. > >"We're not trying to kill Unix," Myhrvold said. "Instead, we want [Windows >NT] to be a hi-end complement to Windows. The idea is to bring applications >to NT that have never been on PCs before." A number of individuals, who post in comp.os.os2.advocacy from microsoft.com, have said that NT will be considered the ideal server os for clones running Windows 3.1. NT will be sold as Windows 3.1 NT. I wonder which applications fit the class of never being on a PC before? -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP