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From: "Da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: NT (was Overclocking, Linux issues: was Re: About Micro$quash
	...)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:47:50 +1000
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See below ...

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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