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To: space cadet who wrote (8635)	3/28/1998 9:03:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Elroy, you've got it completely wrong insofar as UNIX is concerned. As for the TA gobbledygook, whether it's correct is an open question; whether it's of material value is also open to debate. I won't touch the TA but let me correct you on the UNIX situation at least. NT will be a better OS 5 years as Solaris is better now that it was 5 years ago. In 1993, NT was better than it was in 1988. NT was called OS/2 prior to branching off from IBM. Both UNIX and NT are constantly under construction: one on a solid foundation, the other on a brittle pile of knee-jerk reactions. The NT team is playing catch up and they are basing their application services on antique notions while simply trying to emulate UNIX on every other level. NT inherited its desktop and small server success. There are no technical achievements to speak of. Like the Pentium processor, NT's value is not that it's superior in any way shape or form to other designs; rather, it's the backward compatibility with existing desktop applications and existing hardware which make it attractive. NT is a small network OS or desktop OS that runs all of your favorite applications and supports a mind-bogging array of hardware options. It's a brittle, antique OS designed in a vacuum around the fat-client computing model. The software component architecture is truly a bad design, badly implemented and sprinkled liberally with piles of cash. The cash comes in the form of endless patches, hacks and afterthoughts which have been glued on over the last 10 years. That truly antique component model has straight up failed. Enter Java...