Re: Help me with HTML [NOISE]


to tenchi@usagi.jrd.dec.com
from zangief@netcom.com (Ryo-oh-ki)
subject Re: Help me with HTML [NOISE]
date Thu, 2 Oct 1997 15:26:55 -0700 (PDT)
Rostislav V. Lyudmirsky said:
:On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Mako wrote:
:
:> Yes, UNIX is cool, and I do agree that it has a heads up on WindowsNT.
:> Guess I am just biased towards NT cuz that's what I work with at work.
:
:I guess the way to go is combining the best of two Graphical technology of
:NT, and kernel of Unix, throw in a mach layer and you've got...........
:a NeXT OS. ^_^ But seriously, I think NT will eventually use lot of Unix
:technology.

    Actually, NT uses a lot of VMS (M$ having bought key developers
    from DEC helped when implementing traditionally non-Unix things
    like clustering).

    I'll wait for Rhapsody, thank you.  ^_^

:> UNIX was created for the military... so it can't be all that bad.
:> (Semper Fi!)
:
:No, UNIX was never created for military, it was created by folks at the 
:Bell labs (AT&T) and ever since was updated by the educational 
:institutions. The reason UNIX is so popular is /not/ because it is
:the greatest OS (although it is one of the best), but because it is 
:available for free, it's source code is freely available and anyone is 
:allowed to modify it.

    Not necessarily true, depending on the source code.

:Another reason is because in 70's this OS was 
:freely given to many universities and a whole generation of computer 
:scientists have learned UNIX at school and naturally prefered to use it 
:when they started working.

    Unfortunately, many of these computer scientists are stuck with
    the command-line mentality, and tend to freak out easily with
    present-day GUI OSes like MacOS.

:BTW, in the beginning (as in first 20 years) 
:UNIX did have loads of bugs and security holes. So don't be too harsh on 
:NT. 

    Yesterday, Unix was doing things that most OSes of the time did
    not and could not do.  Today, the only thing that NT can do that
    Unix can't is play various Win32 games.  NT is not innovative
    for its time, and its undeserved popularity as a server OS is
    inversely proportional to its stability, reliability, and
    robustness.

:I'm a graduating senior in CompSci at the Cal State University, so I know 
:a few things about Unix.


___/^_^\___ Eugene Lee
            zangief@netcom.com

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