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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!ames!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!lestat.nas.nasa.gov!thorpej From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: I have one thing to say about Windows '95 & FreeBSD Date: 15 Sep 1995 04:21:34 GMT Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames Lines: 43 Message-ID: <43av0e$g6s@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> References: <41gceu$i14@mirv.unsw.edu.au> <42jot7$bfi@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <MICHAELV.95Sep7002950@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <42nqt0$rss@kadath.zeitgeist.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lestat.nas.nasa.gov Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5930 comp.sys.intel:48033 In article <42nqt0$rss@kadath.zeitgeist.net>, Amancio Hasty, Jr. <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote: >michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) wrote: >>My point was simply to clear up misconceptions. > >So do you work for Microsoft? And so what if he does? Does that matter? Y'know, there _are_ a fair number of clueful people who work at Microsoft. >Hang on here, the FreeBSD folks did all the work not me. Uhh ... I wouldn't say _that_: * * This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by * Rick Macklem at The University of Guelph. * I'm not sure which OS Rick is running at the moment (tho, I know he hacks on NetBSD/vax... :-) ... the `FreeBSD folks' might have teaked it, but Rick really did all the work. >If an OS has multitasking, round-robin priority pre-empted scheduling, >interanal OS resource maanagemet, memory protection, ample hardware >support: Then why can't the OS not be a server? > >1) Because Microsoft wants you to buy into NT ? (and this is no secret) >2) Because Win95 may not be upto to the job or is cripple on purpose Then: 1) Don't buy Win95 if you don't want to. 2) Give Michael a break. Yeesh. -- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939