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To: Prognosticator who wrote (21084)	10/13/1999 2:05:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 64865

Re: "I personally think Sun should amend their vision statement to "The Network is Everything, Nothing Else Matters Suckers!", but then I've had too much beer." Perhaps. But it made me ROTFL.

To: Prognosticator who wrote (21084)	10/13/1999 2:07:00 AM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

An interesting, if now forgotten fact about Windows NT, is that when it first came out, Microsoft fractured their arms up to the shoulder patting themselves on the back about how modern and state-of-the-modular-microkernel art it was. The ZD press fell all over themselves with huzzahs. Why, there was nothing down there in the kernel at all! It was maybe a couple of lines of code! Everything was a user-level service. Bill G. isn't a religious man, but Dave Cutler & friends had even him believing in miracles. Now, seven years and a few billion blue-screens later, a college-kid's take on the plain old monolithic Unix kernel (Linux) kicks NT's ass around the block on uniprocessor performance, NT doesn't scale worth doodly on SMP's, and best of all, this super-state of the art microkernel has to get rebooted every time you install an application because the button library got updated! (Forget about Solaris' scalable threaded kernel...you couldn't even explain that to Microsoft.) But Windows 2000 will fix all that and the rest of the world's problems too. Yeah whatever, I hope the market doesn't tank too bad. --QS

To: Prognosticator who wrote (21084)	10/13/1999 2:30:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Also I thought TV had displaced wireless as the favored means of mass media communications anyway, so they messed up there DIDN'T THEY!. Well, I hadn't thought of it, but Radio may be just the thing for M$. They just stick the feather in their cap and call Marconi. They could pick up not only radio properties, and commercial radio bandwidth cheap, they could pick up all 5 organized crime family record labels for all stock and not very much, plus have RealAudio digested before dinner. There, we found a place for them. ...Nothing Else Matters Suckers!", but then I've had too much beer. <g> What kind of beer? Hey, you get Gordon Biersch Marzen right from the mothership down where you are right? -JCJ