[Info-vax] OT: Arun Kishan

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 17-01-2010 05:32, John Wallace wrote:
> On Jan 16, 1:07 pm, Paul Sture<paul.nos... at sture.ch>  wrote:
>> In article
>> <dec96c96-1ba6-4f28-af8f-099e46fa6... at m26g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
>>   John Wallace<johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:
>>> "Critical for system reliability" was important in the original NT
>>> design (the one that outsiders saw as NT3.x) but afaik was quickly
>>> (and quietly) sacrificed.
>>
>> I don't remember the sacrifice being all that quiet. Rather I recall
>> dragging the graphics into the kernel being actively promoted as a
>> performance benefit.
>>
>> The rest of what you say is spot on.
>
> The performance benefit was indeed promoted loudly, but iirc
> (correction welcome) the tradeoff for reliability, stability and
> security was kept relatively quiet... after all, Windows wasn't an
> enterprise-class OS back then, so it didn't matter.

Enterprise class is mostly a synonym for expensive.

But we talk about server usage, then the OS in question
(NT 4.0) was very much a server OS.

Because most of the desktop users were on 95 and 98
not NT 4.0 Workstation.

Arne