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Subject: Re: Privilege Levels Below User
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:18:44 -0400
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On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 04:07:17 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

>Windows NT was a disaster to the entire Unix workstation market. The irony 
>was, NT “Workstation” wasn’t really feature-equivalent to the OSes the 
>Unix workstations were running. But it was enough for the customers, it 
>seems ...

The differences were almost all at user level: the most glaring
examples being NT's single user shell [even on server editions], lack
of admin tools in the workstation edition, and lack of development
tools in all editions.

Considered as an "operating system" - ie. what could be implemented on
the platform - NT certainly was (mostly) equivalent to Unix.  Note:
equivalence is not "sameness" - NT was implemented differently, its
APIs were different, and code that was "equivalent" in function often
did not look the same (and was not transportable).

BTDTGTTS