Captain's log. On StarDate Mon, 07 Jul 2003 20:23:46 GMT received comm from
""eric w" <eric@nospam.net> on channel comp.os.os2.misc ":
: On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 22:51:49 UTC, Martin Törnsten <omartint@hotmail.com> wrote:
:
: > You don't have to like it (Windows NT and it's derivatives), but this is some
: > real and pure FUD. Windows Server 2003 has very recently been released
: >
:
: no its NOT FUD.
:
: Windows Server 2003 has virtually NO changes to the kernel, its all GUI & fluff
: changes.
Some OS/2 claims it's nothing new and some like you that it's completely new
(like William L. Hartzell). How do you want to have it? You can't all have it
both ways.
The truth is however in between and quite simple. Each new version of NT evolve
from the previous one. Windows Server 2003 is for example NT 5.2 kernel level
and Windows XP is at 5.1. The next released NT will be "Longhorn" (XP and 2003
is internally "Whistler") and after that "Blackcomb" (note: Longhorn is the
famous pub between the Whistler and Blackcomb mountains). This is fairly common
knowledge and not anything really new.
NT has been written to extremely portable from day one, and has for a long time
been internally developed on 64-bit processors as well (main development done
with early Windows 2000 kernels running in 64-bit mode on Alpha processors), and
has later on been ported to Intel Itanium and now also to the AMD 64-bit
processors as well. If something new interesting processors (from both a
technical and market point) for personal computers or servers comes around it
will be easily ported to that as well.
: You have bought into the Mcrap PR machine my friend!
Nope. I use the products myself and know them quite well.
I never liked or bought into Microsoft PR about the Windows 9x series. I
predicted that it would be a worse (compared with the already released OS/2 and
NT) system and a () in the computing history. I think I was proved right with
the death of it with the ME release being the last cash cow from MS to milk that
line (commercially) to the fullest before they ended it.
Best regards,
martin törnsten
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