From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 26 06:13:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA02434 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 06:13:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA02425 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 06:13:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.053 #1) id 0zj2AV-0006ab-00 for chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 14:13:17 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id OAA02936 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 14:12:47 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12854; Thu, 26 Nov 98 14:12:44 GMT Message-Id: <365D61AF.FCF53FA8@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 14:11:59 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The truth about NT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Not really a FreeBSD topic, but amusing all the same. I've just found an old (Spring 1994) copy of the Sun UK User Group magazine. The News section contained the following item... "Sun has re-considered the platform it will use to 'productize' NT on. It will be using the 64-bit UltraSPARC processor instead of SuperSPARC II. The UltraSPARC chip is [..tech details snipped..]. It appears that NT could do with all the help it get. The French journal 'INFORMATIQUE' recently published an in-depth article under the headline: 'Windows-NT, does it have a future?'. The conclusion is that NT is a terminal case, crippled by glaring bugs, basic design flaws and rejection by the marketplace. I've never used it, so couldn't comment." Hmm. The only thing that seems to have changed in four years is that Sun are no longer 'productizing' NT :-) -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message