From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 28 17:15:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from relay1.inwind.it (relay1.inwind.it [212.141.53.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E1037B424 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:15:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (212.141.79.1) by relay1.inwind.it (5.1.046) id 39AFDC990042F853; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 02:15:22 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 01:15:59 GMT Message-ID: <20000929.1155900@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: Unix 2000... To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <20000929.275900@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <20000928165631.Y7553@fw.wintelcom.net> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 9/29/00, 12:56:31 AM, Alfred Perlstein wrote regarding Re: Unix 2000...: > * Salvo Bartolotta [000928 16:27] wrote: > > >> * Robert Clark [000927 20:31] wrote: > > >> I heard that they were working on adding symbolic links as well. > > > > > Microsoft has a hard time ignoring technology for more than 10 > > > years, as their users eventually catch wind of things. > > > > Dear Alfred Perlstein, > > > > In a classical textbook on Operating Systems (last edition, publishe= d > > in 1998), Windows NT has been defined as a "modern [sic] operating > > system", "designed and implemented in a completely different way fro= m > > UNIX" [sic]. > Anything can be modern and at the same time garbage, example: NSYNC. > And don't believe everything you read, classical Solaris and other > high end UNIX systems still beat the pants off NT in terms of > stability and scalability. Actually, I do not. The reason for using "sic" twice was to point out it was the authors' opinion. Those definitons ("modern", "different" etc.), instead, take a humoro(u)s character, in the light of what was said before in the thread (NT adopting UNIX features) :-)) Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message