Re: OS/2 vs NT features list, Revision 1.8

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From: Oleg Vishnepolsky
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:33

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In  <1992Sep7.172652.1686@hellgate.utah.edu>  brian%jaguar.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
> ...
>
> Features in the pre-beta Windows NT but not in OS/2 2.0 GA
>  ...
>
>         Networking
>                 TCP/IP
>                 Peer-peer file and printer sharing.
>                 Ability to support multiple vendors as transports
>                         w/common admin.
>                 Good network admin facilities.
>                 SNMP
> #               Berkeley sockets (WinSock compliant).
>                 Named pipes.
>                         (Both NT and OS/2 GA have non-networked ones.)
>                 Event logging.
>                         (Both NT and OS/2 GA have this in non-networked form.)
> ...
>
> Corrections of grammar, spelling, etc are welcomed.
>
> Brian

I do not understand why you list TCP/IP, SNMP and sockets not being in
OS/2 2.0 GA. True, these are optional packages that one can buy either
from IBM or third party vendors, but what's the NT's advantage here ?

Oleg

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