Microsoft OSes

From: Jeff Kaneko <Jeff.Kaneko_at_ifrsys.com>
Date: Wed Feb 4 17:09:53 1998

 
> Sure. XENIX was intended as a UN*X-style NOS that would allow a 286 AT to
> serve a flock of XT clients. It could use protected mode, IIRC.
>
> >Secondly, was there ever a Windows NT 1.0 and 2.0? How did they compare
> >to a cheap version of UNIX?
>
> NT prior to 3.x was called MS LAN Manager, and didn't compare particularly
> well to anything. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Boy, you got that right! It wasn't even better than 3Com 3+Share
(and that was MS-DOs based)! I lost alot of nights sleep (and almost
my shirt!) trying to keep a Lan Mangler 1.1 system up and running.

It was truly suckful at best . . .

Jeff


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