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In article <BzGL07.2wK@dscomsa.desy.de> Hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:
> I would guess that W/NTs single user functionality should outstrip that of
> UNIX fairly easily.

You seem to have a strong opinion about this, so could you explain to me
precisely how the UNIX API is lacking, and what specific features of NT
would be impossible under a UNIX API. Why did Microsoft have to create
a completely new API from scratch, and implement it in such a way that
programs using it are entirely insulated from their UNIX API environment
(POSIX shell)?

> Security in a multiuser  environment is provided in the main by the
> filestore.

Well for UNIX, where access to virtually all system resources is provided
through the filestore, I would agree. But NT has half a dozen different
mechanisms for interacting with the system... how can multiuser security
be managed if it only protects a minor part of the system?

> system which can run existing apps for starters and move up to better systems
> than have the initial OS/2 "throw it all away approach."

Since OS/2 and NT have virtually the same level of backwards-compatibility
with DOS, how do you make out that the OS/2 approach is any way diferent?

I'm sorry, but you seem to be discussing a completely different set of
software packages than I'm familiar with or have been discussed in the
media.
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