 Re: Win NT - what is it???
Article-I.D.: shelley.1qnaesINNemf
Organization: University of Washington
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NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu

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> writes:

>>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 .  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 , 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 .  
>>
>>	Anyway, don't expect it soon.  Windows 4 and DOS 7 are supposed to be 
>>released next year , so I expect that Chicogo won't be out 
>>til '96.
>How does Chicago differ from the  announced Windows 4. My understand-
>ing, at least from the InbfoWorld accound of Windows 4 is that it's sort
>of NT Lite--a full-fledged operating system but lacking server and security
>features that make NT such a bear. Is W4 not true multithreading?

 
	Can anyone tell me how Chicago/Windows 4 would differ from
OS/2 2.x?  Believe it or not, I'm not trying to start a flame war,
here.   I'm simply curious  if there is going to be any feature
advantage in either of these products 
