Indeed. The effort to support the new Win32 API's, security, new device drivers, different GDI interfaces, proper threading and synchronization, etc... was an EXTREMELY tough sell to vendors, given that in many cases it was a significant re-write, all to support a platform who's success was not necessarily a given.
That having been said, I miss NT on Alpha. L -sc From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 10:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware) >From what I can recall while working at SolidWorks (still called Winchester Design at the time), they had an extremely hard time getting developers to adopt to NT, and the initial hardware platform it should be run on was in question too. The concepts were so new to the Windows-world that it would have stymied growth or killed the business completely. Microsoft's goal was to make/sell a networkable OS to compete with *NIX, and be as easy to use as Windows. They accomplished this goal, but as the *NIX world has always been quick to point out, they F'd us at the same time in terms of security and non-GUI administration. This is all to the best of my recollection from my NT 3 beta testing/development days. YMMV. -- ME2 On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: NT could run Win16 code. It just didn't allow system operations without admin privileges. Exactly how much of a problem that would have been, I can't say. It's certainly still a source of trouble today, so that doesn't bode well. But think of how much further along we would be *today* if Microsoft as a whole had started to consider security important back then, rather than starting in 2001. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
