Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jan 1999 15:50:47 +0100 | From | Andrej Presern <> | Subject | Re: User vs. Kernel (was: To be smug, or not to be smug, that is , the question) |
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david parsons wrote: > One of the nice strengths of Unix is that it's basically an ad-hoc > system, blissfully free of some of the worst excesses of industry and > academia.
One of the ugly weaknesses of Unix is that because it's basically an ad hoc system, it suffers from numerous, overly complex, inefficient and often inadequate security mechanisms (which themselves are ad hoc answers to security problems with other ad hoc solutions).
> Windows NT is a `clean, modern, well-designed OS'
Windows is an abomination in the eyes of an OS designer. It's big, it's dumb, it's ugly and it always needs some extra stitches to hold it together... I guess one could call it The Frankenstein's Monster:-)
Andrej
-- Andrej Presern, andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si
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