Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

From: Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer <Casper.Dik_at_Holland.Sun.Com>
Date: 7 Mar 2000 14:56:49 GMT
Message-ID: <8a35bh$p2f$1@new-usenet.uk.sun.com>

[[ PLEASE DON'T SEND ME EMAIL COPIES OF POSTINGS ]] Jose Pina Coelho <bofh_at_mail.teleweb.pt> writes:

>Werner wrote:
>> Here's another Microsoft "first" for you too, symbolic links!
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp

>This is shared /usr, a technology deployed by IBM on AIX 3.2
>and abandoned because it was not practical nor robust.

Aka "dataless clients" as used in SunOS 4 (1990 and earlier).

You can still install those with Solaris though it's officially not supported; the internal disks of systems have grown faster than the OS so it became increasingly uninteresting.

Unless, perhaps, you have local data on desktops which is pretty much a NO-NO.

(Ah, that explains why they want to do this in Windows 2000 :-)

Casper
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