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More accurately, before Microsoft cared about the Internet.

• Aloha 3y ago
  No, not just that, but before the idea that most systems would be internet connected. NT's design was started in 1989 and 3.1 was released in 1993 - development started a full 7 years before the idea of a connected world was commonplace, and a full 12 years before wide deployment of broadband. Whatever comes along that is a clean break with NT, and Unix - will have these assumptions built in.
  • mikewarot 3y ago
    POSIX is incompatible with security. Any such new system can not support it to have any hope of being secure. Do you think folks can live with that? It's like trying to introduce outlets and circuit breakers to folks used to just hot wiring directly to the grid. The idea of the OS directly enforcing the will of the user(through power boxes that return handles/capabilities, instead of dialogs that return names) takes a little adjustment.
  • dboreham 3y ago
    Not how I remembered this era. When I got my first NT beta CD in 1992 the place I worked already had public IP connectivity and NT already had working TCP/IP. We were pulling new beta releases down from the MS ftp server (rhino.microsoft.com) by early 1993. It was Windows 3.1 that was developed without consideration of internet networking.