NT was never adopted as an end-user operating system, at least not by anyone I know. It was primarily used as a server O/S except for a few specialized situations. Granted, in my previous career, I did use an NT-based video editing workstation, but most people I know used Win9x and it's successors until Microsoft finally got smart and forced everyone to move to an O/S with a separate admin and user workspace (started with XP, and improved in Vista and even more in Win7.)
A "user" O/S I define as what you'd find in most workspaces. i.e. end-user workstations. I'm just happy that Microsoft finally got with the program and stopped letting users run as the local admin by default. John-AldrichPerception_2 From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mac and Windows mix Yes, it was NT Workstation and NT Server were separate products. I deployed NT Workstation 3.51 and NT Workstation 4.0 many times. Was it missing some stuff? USB support was the biggest around the NT 4.0 time frame. But it was a solid OS and had vastly superiour stability to Win3.1 compared to NT 3.51 or Win9x compared to NT 4.0. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:28 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: True. but NT was not a "user" operating system. J John-AldrichPerception_2 From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix This is only one, tiny, aspect of implementing a security model (reading Windows Internals by Russinovich/Solomon is highly recommended). That said, Windows NT has had the same model since the first released version (v3.1 back in 1993) Cheers Ken From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2010 10:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix Basically, that users are not admins and that everything runs in "userspace" unless specifically run as an admin, including installation of software. John-AldrichPerception_2 From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 8:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix What do you understand that model to be? -sc From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 3:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix Not to start a flame war or anything, but I was under the impression that Mac OS/X was significantly *more* secure than a comparable Windows machine, due to the *nix security model? Asking for information here, trying to learn, not trying to start a Mac Vs. Windows thread (there are enough of those, that I don't need to start one! <G>) John-AldrichPerception_2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
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