15 Feb
2018
15 Feb
'18
7:23 p.m.
On 7 Feb 2018, at 01:54, Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, certainly "NT Takes Over the World!" didn't happen, and in retrospect
it seems somewhat naive that anyone ever thought that it would; let alone that it would
put Unix into the grave. But those doomsday predictions seemed very much to be the order
of the day.
Sometime around 1994 someone asked me to write a document explaining why Linux (or,
perhaps Unix in general) was so much better than NT to make some business case. I got a
copy of NT (3.x) and an NT design book (I'm not sure which one but there probably
only was one at the time), read the book and declined to write the article, because I
thought that NT would probably win, much to my dismay. I think my reasoning was that
people would care about security and NT actually had a security architecture which Unix
really didn't.
Obviously I should have taken the money.
--tim