[Gllug] Sun hardware/firewall memory

Tue Dec 21 06:05:20 UTC 2004

On Monday 20 Dec 2004 23:41, John Edwards wrote:

> It was a Unix
> workstation from the days when PCs ran Windows 3.11, were lucky if
> they ran for a full day without a crash, and were not thought of
> by some as real computers.

Meantime to blue-screen crash on Win XP is a matter of minutes rather than 
hours, these days.

> Proper multitasking 32bit operating systems such as NT4, Linux and
> BSD (once the AT&T case was settled) along with advances in Intel
> CPUs changed all that.

No Windoze (including NT and XP) has ever been "multi-tasking".   MS have 
always claimed it was, but that's just more marketing bluster.

Chris
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