From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 31 13: 3:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp2.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E77537B405 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:03:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13735 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2001 21:02:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.133.122) by smtp2.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 31 Oct 2001 21:02:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 25114 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2001 21:03:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO MOTHER) (192.168.1.2) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 31 Oct 2001 21:03:09 -0000 From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Anthony Atkielski" , "questions@freebsd.org" Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:02:13 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (5.0.2195;2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Message-Id: <20011031210319.4E77537B405@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:42:17 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: >Windows NT didn't seem to be suicidal. IBM probably would have agreed with you, >since they split up with MS precisely because the latter wanted to write >something from the ground up, but IBM turned out to be wrong, and MS turned out >to be right. IBM's effort ended up as OS/2, and we all know where OS/2 is today >(nowhere, essentially). yes, it is nowhere, but its still 3 times the OS as NT. the only bad thing about it was IBM never intergrated any good networking protocols until really late in the game --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message