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- From: rstory@elegant.com (Robert Story)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.181456.7768@elegant.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:14:56 GMT
- References: <C015xq.E4J@world.std.com>
- Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
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- In article <C015xq.E4J@world.std.com> apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence) writes:
- > I just bought "Inside Windows NT" by Helen Custer (Microsoft Press)
- > and have started reading it but immediately I have a dozen questions
- > that (maybe) someone can answer.
- >
- > My biggest objection to NT has been the lack of support for dumb
- > terminals, and the absence of a command line driven shell. I imagine
- > the second is trivially easy, and I thought the first would be too, but
- > now I'm starting to wonder.
- >
- > According to my understanding of what little I've read so far :-)
- > the logon process in NT is rather strongly linked to the Win32 Subsystem,
- > and the Win32 Subsystem is what provides and controls the screen, the
- > keyboard, etc. In other words, you get to any other subsystem through
- > Win32, and that system has to use Win32 for it's user-interface I/O.
- >
- > If I have understood that correctly (odds, anyone?), it seems that tacking
- > on terminal support would be more than a little difficult??? Or could it
- > be done in the context of something that starts up in Win32, spawns off
- > terminal logins (but this assumes that the logon can be persuaded not
- > to call Win32)? I'm getting confused...
- >
- > On the other hand, it would seem that porting Unix apps to this environment
- > and running in something similar to an xterm window might be very easy.
- >
- > And, of course, what this ulimately comes down to is where to place my
- > bets for the next few years. If there is a way to make NT support dumb
- > terminals and present a "Unix" interface for those of us who love it,
- > and if porting apps really is going to be as easy as it looks, then I
- > think NT is going to win...
-
- My understanding (which is very little, indeed) is only from press
- reports. However, I thought that NT was only a single user system and
- as such would only make use of the console. Ergo, why would one
- require support for dumb terminals ???
-
- -Robert.
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