Mail Archives: opendos/2000/10/26/18:44:15
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Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert W Moss [SMTP:domanspc AT juno DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2000 19:13
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: Overclocking, Linux issues: was Re: About Micro$quash...
>
> This used to be just a DR DOS list, but lately, "when Bernie and Patrick
> are not ranting", we seem to be getting a lot of NT and Linux stuff
> here.
> Considering the following post concerning security on different OS's I
> should think UNIX would be the most secure with Linux right behind.
> My networking instructors, who were all MSCNEI and NCSEI certified, did
> not think highly of NT because they thought it was to prone to crash and
> difficult to maintain. However I recently came into possession of a book
> titled PC Roadkill, in which Bill Gates himself claims NT is UNIX and all
> other UNIX versions are incompatible clones, so I guess NT should be the
> most secure OS in the world. I wonder if he has stuck someone elses
> proprietary code in there to.
>
> Just food for thought!!
>
> Quote " At the 1993 PC Expo, Bill Gates suggested that Windows NT would
> effectively knock out Unix. In fact he went a step further, saying that
> Windows NT was the same thing as Unix: 'In a short time, it will be the
> most popular form of Unix ever. Windows NT will outsell those other
> incompatible versions of Unix.' " Unquote.
>
[da Silva, Joe]
As I recall, Bill used to say similar crap about M$DOS, quite
some time ago (V1~V2 days...). Incredible, huh?
Anyway, Windoze NT was going to be called OS/2 Version 3,
remember?! So, I expect a lot of it is based on their previous
work for IBM, which IBM was not overly impressed with ...
As for NT outselling Unix, last figures I saw had NT market
share flat, while Linux market share is growing rapidly. So I
guess you would need to exclude Linux from Unix, for Bill's
statement to have any credibility.
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