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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
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- Subject: Re: Novell bought USL?
- Message-ID: <16130@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 22:18:18 GMT
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- >NT (from what I've heard) is only being targeted at servers, not workstations
- >(high end or otherwise).
-
- NT, from what *I've* heard, is *not* being targeted only at servers (no,
- person A claiming that persons B, C, and D from Microsoft said so in
- "comp.os.os2.advocacy" is *NOT* sufficient evidence for me):
-
- 1) DEC and the ACE people (or what's left of them) have been
- showing it off on workstationoid boxes;
-
- 2) Microsoft has been showing off desktop applications;
-
- 3) a Microsoft spokesperson, as I remember, indicated that they
- *do* view it as a desktop OS.
-
- I can believe that they don't expect it to immediately become a
- *mass-market* desktop OS, and that they view servers as being *one* of
- the initial markets for NT, but I've seen nothing to indicate that they
- intend it to be a server OS, henceforth and forevermore, world without
- end, amen.
-
- >Unixware does not provide DOS-type networking support (IPX/SPX) as a
- >server; only as a client (always possible that I missed something, though).
-
- It'll be interesting to see if that continues to be the case if they
- acquire USL....
-