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Article #172Re: Application Chauvinism by Major FTP site
From: Ryan Niemi
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 00:00
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Mario Klebsch DG1AM (mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de) wrote: : newest and hottest pentium boards. And please remember, windows was : the first OS, that was able to really handle more RAM than 640 : KBytes. ...Misc stuff about Microsoft removed... : windows NT, they started working on these mistakes. A 32 Bit address : space was introduced, a new process modell, and access restrictions : were added. The lack of these features was one of the strongest : arguments against windows. These features made UNIX so robust, and : their lack is the reason, that every PC user knows about CTRL-ALT-DEL This is interesting... So Windows was the first OS to handle more than 640K, and UNIX was a robust OS because it could handle more? Are you familiar with an early UNIX environment on the IBM platform called Xenix? -Ryan Niemi ryan@xanth.kf.jcic.org
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10f6aa,8c87df0270b8463b X-Google-Attributes: gid10f6aa,public X-Google-Thread: f7a5e,8c87df0270b8463b X-Google-Attributes: gidf7a5e,public X-Google-Thread: 10afa1,8c87df0270b8463b X-Google-Attributes: gid10afa1,public X-Google-Thread: 1117c9,8c87df0270b8463b X-Google-Attributes: gid1117c9,public X-Google-Thread: 102bfa,8c87df0270b8463b X-Google-Attributes: gid102bfa,public X-Google-Thread: fd6ed,8c87df0270b8463b X-Google-Attributes: gidfd6ed,public X-Google-Thread: f71eb,8c87df0270b8463b X-Google-Attributes: gidf71eb,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,8c87df0270b8463b X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public From: ryan@xanth.kf.jcic.org (Ryan Niemi) Subject: Re: Application Chauvinism by Major FTP site Date: 1995/06/20 Message-ID: <3s58h3$t2h@hq.jcic.org> X-Deja-AN: 104787318 distribution: world references: <3rs4uh$gs3@ob1.uws.EDU.AU> <3rvtnu$5b3@news1.halcyon.com> <3s0i5a$jvn@qns2.qns.com> <3s1f7t$fjd@inferno.mpx.com.au> <3s1dck$rpm@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <mkl.803572041@duesentrieb> followup-to: alt.comp.shareware,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc,alt.sources,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer.turbovision,alt.fan.bill-gates,aus.computers,aus.computers.ibm-pc,alt.sources,aus.sources,comp.sys.ibm.pc organization: Sunset Data Systems newsgroups: alt.comp.shareware,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc,alt.sources,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer.turbovision,alt.fan.bill-gates,aus.computers,aus.computers.ibm-pc,alt.sources,aus.sources,comp.sys.ibm.pc