Kathy E. Gill wrote:
>
> At 5:05 PM -0700 5/6/98, John H.Stewart wrote:
> >Michael A. Stone wrote:
> >> is there some sort of myth in the PC world that the Mac OS is still a
> >> single-tasking operating system? for the record, it's not.. we've had
> >> cooperative multitasking since System 6.0.8 back around, oh, '90.
>
> > IMHO, it is a matter symantics. Neither OS is a true threaded
> >multi-tasking OS like the various variants of UNIX.
> >
> > Personally, I don't consider MacOS a "true" cooperative multitasking
> >OS. Task Switching, yes. NT does have the advantage in that it is a
> >cooperative multitasking OS with the protected memory feature. Meaning,
> >one app crash will not lock the complete OS. In theory, this is
> >correct. In actual application, my NT workstation crashes just as much
> >or more as my Mac. Of course, I do spend more time sitting in front of
> >the NT than my Mac. Sometimes the "protected memory" feature limits
> >the action to restarting the crashed app. Frequently, the entire system
> >needs to be restarted. At that point, I consider it 45 minutes fo
> >wasted time inorder to restore everything to the point of crash. With
> >my Mac, it is usually less than a minute to return to point of crash.
>
> Curious -- anyone know the market share of NTs being used as PCs (not
> servers) compared to Mac market share???
>
> at the aforementioned Cold Fusion demo today -- one of the laptops had NT
> -- the other had Win95, and the person doing the demo APOLOGIZED!
>
>
I don't know of a specific "market share" report. We are in the
beginning phases of upgrading our computing capability with the
direction that NT will be at the desktop. Win95 does not provide the
security, scalability, dependability, and maintainability that NT does.
To date, we have not been able to experience that same "...ility"
factors for our servers. Unix is still the better server platform; NT
is still "Not There".
--
John Stewart
SUPSHIP San Diego
Information Systems Security Mgr
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