On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 13:03:54 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 10/08/2019 12:04, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> Windows in inherently insecure by design.
>
Quite - because until NT arrived Windows nothing more than a graphical
desktop sat on top of MSDOS 7, and MSDOS had never heard of security, and
even networking was just a 3rd party add-on until Windows 3.11 appeared.

> Windose was designed as a single user non networked design.
> What Gates SHOULD have done is instead of NT, adapted and written a
> pretty face for unix/linux
>
Exactly so. The real surprise is that OS/2, the joint project with IBM,
wasn't better than it was: by then IBM was starting to write decent
operating systems, starting with Future Series, (which morphed into OS/
400) and AIX. I used OS/400 quite extensively: it was reliable, bug-free
and very logical to use once you overlooked its two major deficiencies:
9 character names without extensions and it didn't have a hierarchic
filing system. Maybe better features of these couldn't be beaten into the
thick heads in Microsoft?


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