From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 28 16:56:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B958E37B423 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:56:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8SNuVp17659; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:56:31 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix 2000... Message-ID: <20000928165631.Y7553@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000929.275900@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000929.275900@bartequi.ottodomain.org>; from bartequi@inwind.it on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:27:59AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Salvo Bartolotta [000928 16:27] wrote: > >> * Robert Clark [000927 20:31] wrote: > >> I heard that they were working on adding symbolic links as well. > > > Microsoft has a hard time ignoring technology for more than 10 > > years, as their users eventually catch wind of things. > > Dear Alfred Perlstein, > > In a classical textbook on Operating Systems (last edition, published > in 1998), Windows NT has been defined as a "modern [sic] operating > system", "designed and implemented in a completely different way from > UNIX" [sic]. Anything can be modern and at the same time garbage, example: NSYNC. And don't believe everything you read, classical Solaris and other high end UNIX systems still beat the pants off NT in terms of stability and scalability. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message