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To: uu who wrote (7653)	2/10/1998 6:16:00 PM
From: EenieMeenie	Respond to of 64865

About the software architecture: I was wondering if someone out there can help me compare NT to Unix. I would think that UNIX as a program is more simple and efficient. After all, it was written back in the days when computers had more limitations. As this should be the case, how does the simplicity in the UNIX code effect its performance? Can NT ever expect to run as fast as UNIX, or would it take a rewrite to catch up with UNIX? NT was written under less demanding circumstances and more demanding circumstances depending on how you look at it. From the standpoint of efficiency, I can imagine that alot of involved coding went into NT because NT could afford to be more bulky than UNIX. On the other hand, NT has been more demanding on the programmers because they have Bill Gates (who I would think to be rather demanding) waiting for them to finish so they can meet the expected release date. Do you think these factors play a part in determining which operating system is more efficient? What are the implications of these factors on the larger networks in existence? I really don't know the answer to this. Maybe what I'm writing doesn't even make sense. Let me know what you think. Rambling: As far as SUNW goes, I really like the character of this company. I have a great appreciation for those little guys who tell MSFT to go shove it. Then again, telling someone to shove it when you have IBM, Oracle, Novell, and Netscape standing behind you makes the task of doing so a little easier. Speaking of this crowd, in a lot of ways IBM got smart when it realized it couldn't beat up the MSFT's (once a little guy in the marketplace) of the world. So why not rally a whole bunch of smaller companies around a cause (like JAVA) and let them do the work for you. Hey, if I were IBM I would do the same thing. Hmmmmm, Chris