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Re: UNIX less secure than Win95? (was Re: Septic about (Funds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anton J Aylward)
Fri Feb 14 11:44:57 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:26:24 -0500
To: Jim Harmon <jim@telecnnct.com>, Hallam-Baker <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
From: Anton J Aylward <anton@the-wire.com>
Cc: Charles Brian Hill <hill@unr.net>, mattm@sumac.digex.net, jay@homecom.com,
www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
At 09:16 PM 13/02/97 -0500, Jim Harmon wrote:
I'm getting sick of this war.
I've seen it being fought for nearly 20 years now.
Before MSDOS/Windows/Mac it was VMS/RSTS....
Just a few changes.
>
>If that's the case (I'm not sure your quesitmate is accurate) with a
>10:1 ratio of PC's to MAC, that means there's 100:1 ratio of PC's to
>UNIX boxes.
>
>Since more than 10% (perhaps 20% or more) of all PC's (again a
>guestimate) run UNIX of one flavor or another, and at least 5% of all
>MACs run a flavor of UNIX, and the percentage is growing, I don't see
>how UNIX is going to die.
The ratios are distorted.
A pentium can support either ONE user running Windows or upwards of 100 users
running UNIX. Issues of address spaces, sizes of databases, disk volumes
sizes supported (without having to go to 32K allocation segments!) come int
to play.
Comparing UNIX to NT _may_ be fair. Comparing UNIX to DOS/Windows by any
criteria
is off the wall. Compare a wide body 747 to a Velocette scooter!
>The only 2 reasons NT has made as big an impact on UNIX as it has so far
>are it's price (not cost--since cost includes maintenance, upgrades,
>learning curve, support time, etc.) and availability.
I beg to differ.
I'd say its just one reason. The Microsoft marketing machine.
Kind of like the IBM Marketing machine of the '50s and '60s.
/anton
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