ROB MCCART wrote:
>> Cost probably had more to do with it, when DOS came out, iirc most
>> unix vendors were charging far more than the <$100 or so for
>> DOS...
> 
> Always a factor as well.. although given the cost of Windows vs Linux
> price is not always the only consideration...   B)

I think the base of supported apps, and drivers has more to do with it
today.. in the past, running unix on a personal computer was pretty cost
prohibitive... hell, isn't that what got the FreeBSD and Linux things
rolling, which was iirc, into the 90's ... by then Windows had a
foothold, and was expanding... after NT 4, there was a pretty solid
multiuser, multithreaded windows platform, but even still, most setups
were poorly implimented, using FAT instead of NTFS etc...

Windows NT's kernel is pretty solid, it's all the userland apps, and
core services are the biggest issue, that and security settings along with
some bonehead decisions from MS's higher ups that tended to cause many of
the issues...

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