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Windows NT is supposedly secure. Certainly its design makes it possible to write software that is intrinsicly secure,
Why do you think that? Certainly it's compartmentalism is better than UNIX, and as a "ground-up" design it's probably seen better QA than UNIX. However, it hasn't had 20 years of interest from hackers and others. Also, while the NT kernel may be *better*, several subsystems have all the problems of UNIX, e.g. TCP/IP and the sequence number attack.
I like NT, but it will never be a security panacea.
-- Richard Parratt
IMHO: When are people going to realize that Windows NT is just a partial, microkernel (?right), enhanced scheduler Unix? Add the other half with NutCracker or Consensys's product (what's it called?), and you have have a Posix (not just shell) and Unix SysVR4.2 compatible environment (Supposedly). Unless they make too many mistakes of not staying simple with core concepts or not implementing enough basic building blocks, I can hopefully treat it as just another Unix platform. <Obviously still irritated that companies think (or know...) that they can eek out more money by reinventing instead of refurbishing or augmenting something flexible enough to do anything they want. Face it: there is nothing I can't add to a Unix system, and it wouldn't have to affect existing programs one bit.> sdw -- Stephen D. Williams 25Feb1965 VW,OH sdw@lig.net http://www.lig.net/sdw Senior Consultant 513-865-9599 FAX/LIG 513.496.5223 OH Page BA Aug94-Feb95 OO R&D AI:NN/ES crypto By Buggy: 2464 Rosina Dr., Miamisburg, OH 45342-6430 Firewalls/WWW servers ICBM: 39 38 34N 84 17 12W home, 37 58 41N 122 01 48W work Pres.: Concinnous Consulting,Inc.;SDW Systems;Local Internet Gateway Co.17Jan95