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>In article <1992Mar31.033116.16208@descartes.waterloo.edu> jsmolnar@descartes.waterloo.edu writes:
>>
>>The following advantages are part of Windows NT (to be released by end 1992)

How secure is this release date? I mean 3.1 is very late compared to its release
date isn't it.

>>
>>1) 32 bit, pre-emptive multi-tasking, multi-threading, multi-processing
>>   (per thread) OS

In other words the same as OS/2 2.1. OS/2 2.0 has most of these today BTW.

>>2) Is OS/2, Win 16/32 bit, POSIX (1001.3), DOS compatibl

Is the OS/2 1.3 or OS/2 2.0 support. Are you sure about DOS compatibility,
I remeber to have read other things about DOS compatibility in Windows/NT.

>>3) Supports named pipes, anonymous pipes, shared memory, semaphores,
>>   mail slots, queues and other forms of inter-process communications

What is the advantage of this compared to DDE and OLE?

>>5) Is C2 level secure

Not impressed. Are they going to raise this in the future or is C2 the
limit.

>>6) Built in peer-to-peer networking

Like OS/2 2.0, better, worse?

>>7) Device independant colour module

Sounds slow. How are they going make this speedy.

>>8) Micro-kernal design

Great! (I mean that)

>>9) Memory mapped file i/o

Great!

>>10) Is a client-server design

Will it interact with X-windows (like DesqView/X)?

>>11) Portable to Intel, MIPS, DEC (Alpha) architectures 
>>    (50 K replace-able code...could go elsewhere)

How is this combined with the multi processing claim?

>12) Probably still requires that you buy the $1000 developer's kit so you can
>    have those wonderful libraries. 

What brings the question how expensive is NT itself?

Don't take me wrong. I like the design of NT and sure hope it is going to
be a succes (either as OS/2 3.0 of Windows/NT). But I am sceptical until
I see a public availabble program (bot just a beta). I have been sceptical
of OS/2 2.0 too but IBM had a pleasant surprize there. I can't get rid
of the impression the Windows marketing devision is using NT to hide the
fact that OS/2 2.0 is better than Windows 3.1 (at COMDEX OS/2 2.0 running
3.1 specific software has alreade been demonstrated BTW).


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