From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Operating Systems
Date: 1997/07/26
Date: 1997-07-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.869924023@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5rcimf$a3j$1@news.nyu.edu
Richard says
<<This is way off-topic, but I strongly disagree and it has not matched
my experience. NT and (more notably) Windows 95 can figure out what
your configuration is and support everything you have.>>
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.
Last time (as you know if you remember back) I tried to install NT on
my notebook (A Tecra 720), NT could not find anything (no PCMCIA support,
no sound support, incomplete video support, no support of the internal modem
etc.) By contrast installing Linux on the 720 was fairly straigntforward.
Your milage will differ a lot on different hardware. Even Win 95 can have
trouble (I still have no proper sound on my Tecra, ever since some kind
game deleted the specialized Toshiba driver that came with the system,
standard Win/95 just can't find the sound interface).
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.
Experiences on Alpha are pretty irrelevant, since the Linux there is not
nearly so well developed as the PC version.
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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 [this message]
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
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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