re win nt what is it in a previous article alanchem csd csd uwm edu alan scott olson wrote two part question what is windows nt a real windows os this past weekend a local hacker radio show metioned a new product from microsoft called chicago if i recall anyone know what this is that is it thanks a heap alan windows nt is a giant windows operating system unline win it does not run on top of dos it is its own os with billy gates assures us true multi tasking multithreading meets dod security specs will run win programs as well as dos programs has multi processor support and is primarily a server program it s overhead is too high for it to be economical for most users speaking of overhead it requires at least a with megs of ram it iwll run with but that s like running os with megs and that s just to run it also i have heard that the system files take up megs and it is recommended that your drive be a half gig the skd is distributed on cd rom chicogo is what i want to use it is like nt a true os with thrue multitasking and multithreading but has much smaller hardware requirements and does not meet dod security specs but that s okay since it will probably be more of a client os there are a few otehr differences but those are the main ones there was an article about chicogo in pc week last august the chicogo and nt development groups at micro oft are in intense competition so it is said however i think a different relationship will arise nt will be the server n etowrk t echonology chicogo will be the client machine it is entirely possible for different os s to work together partly because chicogo is just a small nt think of it that way anyway novell netware creates an os on the server that is truly not dos so don t scorn the concept anyway don t expect it soon windows and dos are supposed to be released next year read see it in so i expect that chicogo won t be out til with luck i ll be proven wrong rob rmohns vax clarku edu rob mohns annoy rush limbaugh think for yourself
