[rescue] Perverse Question

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sun Jun 15 15:01:16 CDT 2003


On Sunday, June 15, 2003, at 03:51 PM, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> I have much better luck with NT 4 on old hardware (pre 300 Mhz).  2000 
> is a lot nicer because it is finally a "real" OS in the sense of 
> provided tools that make intuitive sense.  (It is only REAL in that 
> sense).  Examples being mmc (completely customizable admin tool 
> framework).  Domain controllers that are real domain controllers 
> rather than the MS NT 4 definition of a domain (LDAP/vs NetBIOS 
> kludge).  The fact that to convert between DC and non-DC doesn't 
> require a reinstall of the OS.  The fact that the concept of the 
> forest of domain trees is supported.  Many other things as well... 
> it's the first of their systems to come with a complete tool chest 
> with the base OS.

   Wow, that's cool.

   It hit the point UNIX reached fifteen years ago. ;)

        -Dave

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