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Windows NT - the OS to run on comparable computers - was cutting edge, and still is in many ways. Don't be fooled by the similarly named products made for 100x
by throwaway48540 2y ago
Windows NT - the OS to run on comparable computers - was cutting edge, and still is in many ways. Don't be fooled by the similarly named products made for 100x less powerful computers.
- IntelMiner 2y agoWhat computers that ran NT in the 90's were "100x more powerful" than UNIX workstations, exactly?
- Clamchop 2y agoWhat I think they were saying was that NT and Unix workstations were peers (running on "comparable computers"), and that NT shouldn't be conflated with 9x ("similarly named products"), which had to run well on much more modest ("100x less powerful") hardware than the aforementioned.
- throwaway48540 2y agoIndeed
- anthk 2y agoNT and intel didn't catch up SGI/Mips and Dec/Alpha until the Pentium III, and in the case of the Alpha, even the 800MHZ one was subpar against the Alpha.
- throwaway48540 2y agoNT ran on DEC Alpha.
- anthk 2y agoTrue; but software wise Linux and BSD curb-stomped anything NT could offer.
- throwaway48540 2y agoAnd MIPS too.