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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:30616 comp.sys.intel:26870 comp.os.misc:3572 comp.unix.bsd:15716 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7875 comp.unix.sys5.r4:8914 comp.unix.misc:15246 comp.os.linux.development:21716 comp.os.linux.misc:32324 comp.os.linux.misc:32325 comp.os.386bsd.development:2894 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4535 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!library.ucla.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!jjs From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD? Date: 29 Dec 1994 05:59:21 GMT Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside Lines: 35 Message-ID: <3dtj7p$r5h@galaxy.ucr.edu> References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <3d6o4n$k2q@hearst.cac.psu.edu> <3dh116$frs@hustle.rahul.net> <MICHAELV.94Dec27212856@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dostoevsky.ucr.edu In article <MICHAELV.94Dec27212856@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: >I think you're confused. Windows NT is nothing like the Mac OS or >Windows 3.x. Windows NT is a full-blown multi-tasking >multi-processing demand-paged protected-mode operating system, just >like unix. Windows NT is nothing like the cooperative-multitasking in >MacOS and/or Windows 3.x. Sorry to rain on your parade, but I can't help but point out that NT is also nothing like UNIX, either.... (at least from a practical viewpoint...) HOWEVER: I just read that Tektronix has come out with a rather pricey product, and, might I add, a marvelous feat of engineering, which actually purports to make NT a multiuser system (well, 10 users anyway) and furthermore, actually gives it the ability to run X, "just like a real UNIX system"... wow - $300 street price for NT "advanced server", then a few thousand more for X and multiple users... at that point it might even be able to do a crude impersonation of linux... Not! with enough time and money, maybe you can turn a sows ear into a silk purse, but why bother, when a silk purse is (wonder of wonders) actually *less expensive* to start with, in this case? Tektronix gets an E for effort, but I think I'll just stick with linux, thank you.... jjs -- jjs@wintermute.ucr.edu / You can't figure out how to A linux machine! because a 486 / ACCELERATE your Windoze NT box? is a terrible thing to waste! / -9.8 m/s^2 works quite well!!!