[geeks] OS X (was: the briq)

Brian Hechinger geeks at sunhelp.org
Thu Jul 19 09:29:32 CDT 2001


On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:29:16AM -0500, Hatle, Steven J. wrote:
> 
> realized it was inadequate for todays computing world. I'd call it a much
> more drastic change than M$ with the change from Win9x to NT, though that
> was a fairly large step, as well.

well, M$ buffered themselves rather nicely, since there was no "server" os that
they had at the time, and they weren't trying to replace desktop OSes with this
NT thing.  so it's not of the same "leap of faith" as was done by Sun and Apple

-brian



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