Subj : Who's Who in UNIX
To   : William Hurn
From : Lawrence Garvin
Date : Wed May 24 2000 01:38 pm

William Hurn said in a message to Lawrence Garvin:

 WH> A late thanks for your very informative response, including a 
 WH> needed clean-up some of my spelling.  We've had some local delays 
 WH> in FIDO traffic here.  

You're most welcome.. sorry to hear about the mail delays.

 WH> I'm sending this to my son who was a UNIX database programmer for 
 WH> "The Good Guys" in the Bay area for about 5 years and now works 
 WH> for an internet company. He and his ex-boss, who also works there,
 WH> have been bad-mouthing the NT server.

A natural outgrowth of being a Unix bigot, I'm afraid. :-)

 WH> They say it lacks the capacity of UNIX servers and always needs 
 WH> rebooting. I don't know how much of that is fact and how much 
 WH> nostalgia. 

Most all of it is fact... though the part about "always needs rebooting" is 
usually traceable to a bad or misconfigured installation.

Nonetheless, the NT Operating System -is a resource hog when compared to a Unix 
kernel -- of course most of that is a result of the mandatory graphical user 
interface required on an NT Server.

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