[rescue] Re: [geeks] THIS. MAKES. ME. SICK.

[Gil Young]

I think it is safe to say that proper hardware would be a given, as should 
a proper OS.  How they act after these givens is the real issue, that is 
when you get to core design philosophy, which, Windows whatever, well, is 
the reason I dont do windows wherever possible.

Gil

At 12:27 PM 6/15/01 -0700, you wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:14:06PM -0500, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>
> > Which of course, was not your original premise/statement that I took issue
> > with.  We were talking (IIRC) about NT's level of reliability vs. Unix's
> > level of reliability.
>
>Yes, which ties in by virtue of the fact that NT/W2K is just as reliable
>on the proper hardware platforms for it as any commercial Unix is on its
>proper hardware platform.
>
>NT/W2K was never designed to run well running server-class services on
>workstation-class hardware.  That's not its niche.  To castigate it to
>fail to do so just because Linux/FreeBSD does is comparing apples to
>oranges, just as comparing Linux on a 32-processor SMP server monster to
>W2K Datacenter is an unfair comparison.
>
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Gil Young
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