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To: JC Jaros who wrote (45401)5/25/2000 9:08:00 PM
From: Russ  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
You're just opposed to innovation. This whole trial is about the freedom to innovate. Microsoft just has particularly innovative definitions of things.

To say for instance that NT is C2 compliant isn't quite true, is it?

It is, by my "innovative" definition of C2 compliant.

I remember a funny editorial in Dr. Dobb's Journal after MS announced a "real-time" OS, where it was explained that what MS defined as "real-time" had little in common with how the word had been used by engineers for years. More innovation at work!



To: JC Jaros who wrote (45401)5/25/2000 9:21:00 PM
From: Mitch Blevins  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
To be fair, NT4.0 was C2 certified recently (a couple of months ago?). Of course, this was also a tweaked box with no network connection or floppy, but still...