Ryan, Richard, Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > Ryan Malayter wrote: >> On Jul 3, 2:35 am, Martin Burnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>>Of course. Heiko has made a little change for NT4 just a few days ago. >> >> I'm just curious, what is the rationale for continued support of an 11 >> year old operating system? I know it is all up to the volunteer as to >> what they tackle, but it just seems a bit pointless. I haven't seen a >> running NT4 system in about three years at any of my clients. > > Perhaps some of their customers are still using W/NT? I, too, saw some > W/NT systems three years ago; they're gone now, primarily because the > company was bought out. We only had four or five left out of about two > hundred desktop PCs; the rest of our Windows systems ran W/2K or W/XP. > > Companies are reluctant to replace working systems that get the job > done! Let one fail, however, and they won't spend a dime repairing it; > just drop it in the dumpster and bring in a new one.
Exactly this is the reason, especially since in general ntpd runs fine under Windows NT, and there's only one little thing with network interface handling which needs a workaround for Windows NT. Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
