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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.indy.net!xhead3.indy.net!user From: jason@indy.net (Jason Miller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: I have one thing to say about Windows '95 & FreeBSD Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 00:02:38 -0500 Organization: IndyNet - Indys Internet Gateway (info@indy.net) Lines: 45 Message-ID: <jason-1309950002380001@xhead3.indy.net> References: <41gceu$i14@mirv.unsw.edu.au> <41m3at$vn7@lucy.swin.edu.au> <MICHAELV.95Sep7213538@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <430279$218@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: indy2.indy.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6188 comp.sys.intel:48591 In article <430279$218@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: >Still, it's possible to work around all of these problems and turn >Windows95 into a good server platform: with minor exceptions, as >good as NT; better, if we compare on the basis of price/performance. Networking in Win95 isn't designed for a server-side OS. The networking support in NT is both more complete and more robust. Many services standard on both NT Workstation and Server must be patched into Win95. Also, NTFS provides file-level security a-la-UNIX, and is wicked-fast, while Win95 provides...FAT with long filenames. NT is portable to non-Intel platforms [MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC], which outperform a Pentium for servers, and supports symmetric multiprocessing, both great for a future upgrade path. NT's security model is designed with networking at the LAN, WAN and internetworking server level, while 95's is designed with the desktop client in mind. If your server runs any 16-bit services, NT can run them in separate memory spaces, while Win95 lops 'em all into one. WinNT is POSIX compliant, so you can easily port many UNIX-based server apps, while Win95 has...MSN? Finally, in my experience, the TCP/IP code in NT (3.5 and 3.51) is both more stable and more complete than the Dial-up Networking in Win95. Sure, you don't get a Network Neighborhood, but you get support for just about every important RFC out-of-the-box, and a workstation-class impementation of the TCP/IP protocols...with Win95, you get, well, a Start button. So toss Win95 into the recycling bin and get a real server OS, be it WinNT [Workstation or Server] or FreeBSD or even Linux. BTW, FWIW, WinNT 3.51 can run most "Designed for Windows 95" apps, and you can even FTP a prerelease Win95-like shell from ftp.microsoft.com. -Jason Miller jason@indy.net http://www.indy.net/~jason/index.html -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCPAy+4V/wAAAEEAK6FKzhiCBfBuCk6Fayk4szGvwPVWMB6Z+C+xbrOGixVevo/ VOzJzsJMBsPWvuZispyu11H3dF2hjxN8hgbPh86LqqTSE2U4FfeVC5RpRQn4IfZi Jp3F+77e91+D8JqI+7Whbts4n+IoujRQg7z6xP+xjwcwVwSasVJ8ULgm7XG5ABEB AAG0HUphc29uIE1pbGxlciA8amFzb25AaW5keS5uZXQ+iQCVAwUQL7vzw1J8ULgm 7XG5AQFCNAP+KxtVoHjcZoqdjhohqBIYtrqbXe5eTBeHxR+IXUxW/WnqfiZPAo4J UtIUuZNS10axKwciUqB+poHZRfA6sgyJZ2zMY7sNzyV1YrD4a8CI4h6+Dz2Et6R8 1t2m/te3Kx0G8tGQzGBY0yKrFP2eBS0eY213uNdLK3Y5+9eZwaGCZ/E= =pNMz -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----