Re: Privilege Levels Below User

In article <v48ihl$sc37$8@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:

Windows NT was a disaster to the entire Unix workstation market.
The irony was, NT _Workstation_ wasn_t really feature-equivalent to
the OSes the Unix workstations were running. But it was enough for
the customers, it seems ...

It had important advantages for many customers:

Lower costs at equivalent or better performance, once the Intel Pentium
Pro had appeared. The OS cost much less than a commercial Unix, and mass
production meant the hardware was much cheaper.

It ran Microsoft Office. This was really important to corporate managers,
who wanted their engineers to be able to read and create Office documents,
and were frustrated by Unix workstations' inability to do so, and their
engineers not being worried about the problem. Supplying extra PCs was
expensive and took up office space. Software emulation was slow and
unreliable; add-in cards to provide a PC capability were rare, expensive
and unreliable.

John