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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.dos-under-unix
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!bill
- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 19:28:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.192838.17948@Celestial.COM>
- References: <1992Dec31.194540.4102@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <C05822.HDy@world.std.com>
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- In <C05822.HDy@world.std.com> apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence) writes:
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- :mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- ::
- :: NT supports multiple users, but the software required to log them in
- :: isn't part of NT (so they currently must either be at the console or
- :: submit remote-style jobs). In other words, NT out of the box is a
- :: single-user-at-a-time multi-user-distributed-processing multi-tasking
- :: OS. If you don't believe that, ask Microsoft. The contention is that
- :: third parties will provide the login programs required to allow remote
- :: machines running Windows to log in over a network.
-
- What if I don't want to run a window system that looks like it
- was painted with a crayon?
-
- :So... any reason that a third party couldn't write a logon program
- :that was intended to display on a dumb terminal? Or is the GUI stuff
- :too interwound with everything??
-
- Sounds like NT will be just like DOS -- A minimal system that
- requires the user/integrator to go out an buy a bunch of 3rd
- party software to make it useful.
-
- Bill
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