We supported 375,000 NT4 workstations and 10,000 NT Servers - I loved mine. Except for no USB.
On 8 September 2010 16:05, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>wrote: > NT was never adopted as an end-user operating system, at least not by > anyone I know. It was primarily used as a server O/S except for a few > specialized situations. Granted, in my previous career, I did use an > NT-based video editing workstation, but most people I know used Win9x and > it’s successors until Microsoft finally got smart and forced everyone to > move to an O/S with a separate admin and user workspace (started with XP, > and improved in Vista and even more in Win7.) > > A “user” O/S I define as what you’d find in most workspaces… i.e. end-user > workstations. I’m just happy that Microsoft finally got with the program and > stopped letting users run as the local admin by default. > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Perception_2] > > > > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:43 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Mac and Windows mix > > > > Yes, it was NT Workstation and NT Server were separate products. > > I deployed NT Workstation 3.51 and NT Workstation 4.0 many times. Was it > missing some stuff? USB support was the biggest around the NT 4.0 time > frame. But it was a solid OS and had vastly superiour stability to Win3.1 > compared to NT 3.51 or Win9x compared to NT 4.0. > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:28 AM, John Aldrich < > jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> wrote: > > True… but NT was not a “user” operating system. J > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Perception_2] > > > > *From:* Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:27 AM > > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Mac and Windows mix > > > > This is only one, tiny, aspect of implementing a security model (reading > Windows Internals by Russinovich/Solomon is highly recommended). > > > > That said, Windows NT has had the same model since the first released > version (v3.1 back in 1993) > > > > Cheers > > Ken > > > > *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, 8 September 2010 10:13 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Mac and Windows mix > > > > Basically, that users are not admins and that everything runs in > “userspace” unless specifically run as an admin, including installation of > software. > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Perception_2] > > > > *From:* Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 08, 2010 8:49 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Mac and Windows mix > > > > What do you understand that model to be? > > > > -sc > > > > *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 07, 2010 3:15 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Mac and Windows mix > > > > Not to start a flame war or anything, but I was under the impression that > Mac OS/X was significantly **more* *secure than a comparable Windows > machine, due to the *nix security model? Asking for information here, trying > to learn, not trying to start a Mac Vs. 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