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- From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Subject: Re: Novell bought USL?
- Message-ID: <PCG.92Dec31163512@decb.aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 16:35:12 GMT
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- Reply-To: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
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- In-Reply-To: guy@Auspex.COM's message of 29 Dec 92 22: 18:18 GMT
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- On 29 Dec 92 22:18:18 GMT, guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) said:
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- Gary Weston> NT (from what I've heard) is only being targeted at servers,
- Gary Weston> not workstations (high end or otherwise).
-
- guy> NT, from what *I've* heard, is *not* being targeted only at servers
- guy> [ ... ]:
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- guy> 1) DEC and the ACE people (or what's left of them) have been
- guy> showing it off on workstationoid boxes;
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- Olivetti too... DEC actually has shown it off at various times on both
- MIPS and Alpha workstations. Olivetti has shown a (fairly buggy) MIPS
- workstation, the M700; will surely follow suit with Alpha.
-
- guy> 2) Microsoft has been showing off desktop applications;
- guy> 3) a Microsoft spokesperson, as I remember, indicated that they
- guy> *do* view it as a desktop OS.
-
- guy> I can believe that they don't expect it to immediately become a
- guy> *mass-market* desktop OS, and that they view servers as being *one*
- guy> of the initial markets for NT, but I've seen nothing to indicate
- guy> that they intend it to be a server OS, henceforth and forevermore,
- guy> world without end, amen.
-
- Actually they dearly hope that it will rapidly become the successor to
- Windows 3.1; that's why they redid the user interface so that it's
- absolutely identical to the crappy Windows 3.1 one (IBM chose to improve
- on in in OS/2, and they made a (marketing) mistake), and the WIN16/32
- APIs are also "totally" Windows 3.1 compatible.
-
- The Windows NT GUI is so identical to the Windows 3.1 one that it is
- actually difficult to discover whether one is using one or the other.
-
- If Windows NT were not meant for workstations it would make absolutely
- no sense to insist on a Windows 3.1 user and API interface.
- --
- Piercarlo Grandi, Dept of CS, PC/UW@Aberystwyth <pcg@aber.ac.uk>
- E l'italiano cantava, cantava. E le sue disperate invocazioni giunsero
- alle orecchie del suo divino protettore, il dio della barzelletta
-