Nuke Redmond! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Apr 2000

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From: Peter Pachla &lt;peter.pachla(a)wintermute.org.uk&gt;
...
   Actually the
documentation is good but also there is tons of it worse
than the vax grey wall if you try to get it all in one place.... 
That's very interesting, both the local college and factory I worked at had
support contracts with M$ but we were unable to get much more information
than what comes in the "user guide" out of them. 

Between technet Cdroms and microsoft press I have far more info about NT3.51
then I can possible use and yet I can't find what I need when (or
even around when) I need it.  it's so convoluted and random as to be
useless.

The gray wall at least has a useful index and the structure for the gray is
the same as the orange before it.  But then again you pay $3000 for VMS!

Then again I paid nearly that for NT4 and 50 clients... and got that horrid
0.250 inch thick thing the call a book and all the helpfines I can stand on
CDrom.

...
 I must admit, I'm a little concerned with the way
things are headed in the
Linux world right now. But then at least the underlying OS is lean and
stable and you can pare down your installation any way you want. My recent
Win2K test installation, OTOH, came in at well over 600Mb, and insisted on
installing piles of stuff which I neither want nor use (like the
accessibility options) with no way of uninstalling them....without going to
a LOT of trouble anyway. 

True, and all the bugs too!  Thats why I went with NT4, it's finally mature.

Allison