On 27/03/16 22:23, John Rumm wrote:
On 26/03/2016 09:33, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Once again the legacy of Windows - a single user system with its roots
back in floppy disks - and Unix - a multi-user system designed to work
with a very busy disk from the outset - show up.

You do talk a load of crap at times...

Windows 3.1, sure a shell on top of DOS. Win NT onward, basically a
re-engineering of VMS. Hardly what anyone would describe as a single use
floppy based system.


Why do you feel the need to pretend I wrote something I didn't, in order
to score ego-points?

I said that windows had its *legacy* back in single user single tasking
floppy based operating systems.

Not that it still was.

Of course Win NT, written in 1993, some 20!! YEARS after Unix was
ALREADY a multi user multi tasking OS...had to try and drag windows into
the 20th century, but of course it still had to mainatain backwards
compatibility with older windows programs, and it still relied on pretty
guis to make administration accessible to the most complete moron of a
user, and that resulted in exactly the sort of compromises I
documentation. Form over function, designed to sell rather than work.

And that is really the complete answer in a nutshell. *nix systems were
designed to work in professional applications, Windows has always been
first and foremost a consumer product, not an industrial one. It's tried
and succeeded in getting sold into those markets, but that is more in
spite of its engineering, than because of it.

Rough diamond, or polished turd.

Your choice


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