Re: Switching to Windows NT

The irrepressible Robin S. Socha <r.socha(at)control-risks.de> wrote:

[...]
>Sorry to burst your bubble, but there is no "but still". NT is an
>operating environment that has promised "stability" for
>years. However, it can still be BSOD'ed by applications. Can you not
>see what this means?  An *application* killing the OS? Hello?  Do you
>have a "stop payment" on your reality check? I use Linux, Solaris and
>NetBSD. I have never seen any of these be crashed by an
>application. In fact, I have one Linux box that was booted before NT4


In my dim and distant youth (oh, well, a couple of years ago actually) I
did Unix system admin. Boy, was Unix unstable! It was not unknown for a
kernel panic to bring the whole system to a halt. My favourite error
message was "Kernel panicked while attempting to panic"!!! Hello???
Here's a system that doesn't even know how to crash successfully?

Note the key phrase above... "bring the whole system to a halt". That's
40 users instantly non-productive. If our NT boxes go down now, most of
those users will work merrily away on their desktop PCs.

>hit the market. NT (and since we're talking about the Internet here, I
>presume) has no telnet, it has no newsserver, it has no mailserver, it
>has no webserver. It doesn't even have a decent DNS. In other words:

Oh my god! Is this true? Quick guys, shut down the company. Our entire
business has been operating for years on software that doesn't exist!
How did we miss this? Close the web site... apparantly it's a figment of
our imagination :-(

[...]
>it. The P100 64MB RAM I'm sitting at now will easily outperform a P200
>NT box. And it will not crash. It will not be broken into, either. And

How many x-terminals will it support? I'm being serious here, as I don't
know how good Linux is in this respect.


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