Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 01:15:59 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix 2000... Message-ID: <20000929.1155900@bartequi.ottodomain.org> References: <20000929.275900@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <20000928165631.Y7553@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On 9/29/00, 12:56:31 AM, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> wrote
regarding Re: Unix 2000...:
> * Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> [000928 16:27] wrote:
> > >> * Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net> [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=
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> > 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
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