Linux vs Windows, obscure security features (was: Quarantining an account...)

[Jon 'maddog' Hall]

David,

Unfortunately the site you mention:

http://www.alphant.com/

has a FAQ that is wrong:

http://www.alphant.com/ant_faq.shtml#64bits

Alpha NT never supported a 64-bit virtual address space.  I seem to
remember that Digital offered that code to Microsoft in 1992, but
Microsoft turned it down because it was not in "their best business
interests" to accept it.

I was also told that Digital also offered (perhaps at a royalty cost) an
implementation of their clustering software in the same timeperiod,
which Microsoft also turned down.  Instead Microsoft came out with
"Wolfpack", which was the only clustering software I ever saw where two
processors ran slower than one.

Finally, that site did have a bitter-sweet memory for me.  In the upper
right-hand corner of the page is an "ad" for "Shannon knows DEC" the
byline of an old friend of mine, Terry "Charlie Matco" Shannon, may he
rest in the peace he deserves.

md