Cameron Laird's personal notes on Windows NT
NT will die. Nicholas Petreley
explains
why.
Unix to NT
Reference
Things to make Unixoids such as me more comfortable:
- MKS's ToolKit
is the industry standard;
- Hamilton
Laboratories' csh, which "recreates
the original UNIX C shell and utilities completely from scratch on
Windows NT ..." Douglas Hamilton, the principal, has been EXTREMELY
easy to work with in the few dealings I've had with him. He offers
an unconditional money-back guarantee, unlimited free support, a
lifetime of upgrades, ...;
- Datafocus' Nutcracker; and
- Softway Systems's OpenNT.
- X servers, including
- SuperX
- eXceed is the
server with which I have the most experience. I like it
fine. I know of people who've had horrible, inscrutable
problems. Although the company has quite a long history,
new mysteries continue to arise, and I know of few that
Hummingbird's technical support has resolved.
- FTP software offers X/OnNet (X/OnNet32)
- GO-Global from GraphOn
- "LAN WorkPlace" from Novell
- SCO's products are X-Vision and X-Vision Eclipse
- Win eXodus from White Pine
- VNC
- ASTEC-X
- Reflection X
- eXcursion
- I know nothing good about entran/x
- MicroImage's
MI/X
server (which also works for MacOS?) is said to hit
its limits with xterms. I've used it successfully for
somewhat more demanding applications. Once (1999?) it
was available for free, but in 2002 it's not.
[Does it still use twm as its window manager? Does it
still implement X11R5 rather than X11R6? Does it
recognize a font server?]
- the Win32 port of XFree86 4.x
is like MI/X in that it
supports "no XDCMP, no 'native window manager', no
font server support", in the helpful observation of
Victor Wagner;
- Unix installations or distributions which run inside Win32, including
- VMware
- plex86
- Xdenu (but
problems with FTP site?)
- user-mode
Linux (also refer to Linux Magazine profile)
- Armored Linux?
Why run Unix inside of NT? Doesn't that combine the inconvenience
of the former with the instability of the latter? Well, yes,
perhaps; still, it can be a useful expedient for lots of
common situations.
- A report
from IDC which deprecates NT's capacity to handle mission-critical
work
- David Korn's
UWIN
- Cygnus win32 project
- SLNet from Seattle Lab apparently supplies a telnet
server that implements a DOS box for remote access
- OpenNT
- WIN95PAK from Ready-to-Run Software
- vi:
- vim
- This
elvis
executable runs under DOS.
- stevie
WNT Links
Don't use the supplied DNS; choose software.com's port or Metainfo's
IP/DNS.
"What's
Wrong With NT"
Cameron
Laird's notes on
Windows NT/claird@phaseit.net