Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 14:26:53 -0400 From: Dale Chulhan - Home <dchulhan@uwi.tt> To: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, My List <TheTechies@onelist.com>, The Trinidad and Tobago Microsoft BackOffice Users Group <mbug@listbot.com> Subject: Win NT vs UNIX ( cross fire ) Message-ID: <3ACF5BED.86A4FB58@uwi.tt>
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The following is part of some cross fire passing tru another news group: Any comments? =================== Dick, Windows NT was based on VMS not UNIX. In fact UNIX and Windows 2000/NT are very different. Windows uses a micro kernel architecture, UNIX uses a monolithic kernel. That is why you have to recompile/reload the kernel when you add a driver. This is unlike Windows 2000 where drivers can be loaded and unloaded automatically. In fact, you can change IP Addresses on Windows 2000 and you do not need to reboot. This is also very unlike most versions of UNIX. The technology in the Windows 2000 Operating System is standards based, not stolen from the UNIX OS. IPSec, VPN, Kerberos are all technologies that are standards based. Have you ever heard of RFCs? In fact, the Windows interface was a Xerox idea that Apple "borrowed" and was handed to Microsoft on a silver platter. Do you know how long after that the first windows version of UNIX came up? In fact they even chose to call it X-Windows. Today, of all the mainstream Operating Systems, UNIX still has the slowest Windows interface. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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