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

[David Hardy]

maddog, et. al.

Thanks much for that additional history.  I am filing it as notes for my
eventual 'autobiography' accordingly.

I also remember reading Terry Shannon's 'Charlie Matco' columns back then
and I believe I even corresponded with him once or twice.  May he indeed,
fellow 'Nam vet (we were there at the same time, albeit with different
tasks, one of which I shared with him during my later tour in TLC) , rest in
peace.  His web site exists here:

http://www.shannonknowshpc.com/

<http://www.shannonknowshpc.com/>I would cheerfully kill someone now for a
Charlie Matco coffee mug.

Cheers!

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/private/gnhlug-discuss/attachments/20100817/8f6bee42/attachment.html