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From: Giao Nguyen <grail@functional.com>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 27 Mar 1997 16:17:35 GMT
Organization: FIS Technologies
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In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Douglas Seay <seay@absyss.fr> wrote:
: Goatboy wrote:

: > What *significant* things can UNIX do that NT4 or 95 can't?

: concurrent logins (ie - true multi-user) for starters

I think that both can do just about anything the other can do. NT4 is
beginning to be able to support concurrent logins via third party support.
However, the question is of the things that can be done, which does a
better job (and preferably faster too)? 

Give me Unix any day.


Giao