edit: Are you aware that Windows NT has a POSIX subsystem? And that technically Windows NT could be certified as UNIX, were MS to submit it for testing? Oh I'm sure it wouldn't pass as-is, and would need some development, but nonetheless. And you're aware that Apple didn't even WRITE OS-X? It's based off the BSD kernel, which was developed at Berkley. Actually it's based off NeXTSTEP, which uses a modified Mach derived BSD kernel. Are you aware of the HUGE similarities between Windows NT and DEC/Compaq VMS/OpenVMS? Did you know that Dave Cutler, lead engineer for Dec, left DEC for Microsoft, with 20 engineers and developers in tow to work on NT, and that they are internally very similar? Or that NT was written to be processor/platform independent, and in fact, is? NT has run on more platforms than Mac OS -any-revision ever has.
NT is awesome. You want to ***** about virus, bad software, stuff crashing, crappy drivers, blame third party vendors because your beef lies there. Blame hacky, crappy developers who can't figure out how to write software that doesn't require Administrator access, doesn't have to write to NT system folders, and can't figure out how to open Registry keys in Read Only mode.
Sorry for the rant, but people spouting off about which OS is better, and how anything UNIX based is the way to go in all cases, annoy the hell out of me. Mostly because they almost NEVER know what they're talking about.
Disclaimer: I run Solaris 10 on my desktop, for general computing and software development. I run varies NT machines. And Plan9. No MS Fanboy-ism here.
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Originally Posted by Justin S
I'll take anything UNIX based over windows ANY day. Don't get me wrong, Windows works very well when it is NOT plugged into a network.
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