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Re: What's best for reliable BBS: SCO Unix, Linux, or NT?

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From: Joseph Hlebasko
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1993 17:10
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In article <2e2qca$sdf@gap.cco.caltech.edu> Daniel R. Kegel,
dank@cco.caltech.edu writes:
>Is Linux up to critical applications like this, or am I better off
>under SCO Unix?  I suspect that either system requires a Unix weenie
>(like myself) to run it, and I'd much rather that it be easy to
>administer.
>For that matter, should I consider Microsoft Windows NT?
>
>Can you pass open file descriptors between processes under SCO?  under
Linux?
>under NT?  This seems like something I might want to do to pass calls
>from my frontend to a 3rd party backend.
>
>- Dan Kegel (dank@alumni.caltech.edu)

Or you might consider QNX for this application.
-Joseph Hlebasko
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