From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: Operating Systems
Date: 1997/07/27
Date: 1997-07-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5re5a9$24$1@news.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.869924023@merv
In article <dewar.869924023@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>Richard, this is quite wrong, what you say is true of Win95, but very much
>not true of NT. One of the huge problems with NT is that it does not have
>plug and play, and cannot definitely figure out what your configuration
>is and support everything you have.
I noted that my comment was more true for Windows 95 than NT.
>But to say that NT is much easier to install than Linux just does not
>match everyone's experience by any means. No doubt when the new version
>of NT comes out with P&P, things will be better, but by then Linux will
>also be much easier to install. In fact, as far as I know you (Richard)
>have never installed Linux from a Redhat CD ROM onto a PC -- it is much
>smoother than you imagine.
I've seen the install. It is indeed relatively smooth, but still
relies a lot on the user to know the details of his configuration. NT,
as you say, does not support a lot of things, but is better at
correctly configuring itself when it encounters a configuration it
does fully support.
>Experiences on Alpha are pretty irrelevant,
... unless the choice is whether to run NT or Linux on a Alpha.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-07-22 0:00 Operating Systems Robert D. Yexley
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Nasser
1997-07-23 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-07-24 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1997-07-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Odo Wolbers
1997-07-24 0:00 ` Was Operating Systems (Now Windows GUI Debugger) Jeff Creem
1997-07-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-23 0:00 ` Operating Systems Robert Dewar
1997-07-25 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1997-07-25 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
[not found] ` <5rcimf$a3j$1@news.nyu.edu>
1997-07-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Richard Kenner [this message]
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1997-07-26 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1997-07-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-28 0:00 ` John Howard
1997-07-28 0:00 ` Skip Carter
1997-07-28 0:00 ` John Howard
1997-08-01 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-08-04 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
1997-08-05 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
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