From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 8 23: 5:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66C1A37B405 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 23:05:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g1975Nr67016; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 08:05:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <016d01c1b138$25d7d030$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Charles Burns" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: Subject: Re: Breaking permissions on Windows 2000 (Server Edition) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 08:05:25 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Charles writes: > ...and dead... Not because it was secure. Mostly because it was too bloated for the hardware available to run it at the time, and because of continued mismanagement of the product commercially. It did have a few drawbacks, but no more than UNIX, and it had many advantages over UNIX. Today, it would run considerably faster than Windows if it were converted to a PC platform (but probably still slower than UNIX). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message