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Foil 7 Some Operating System Issues

From NPAC and InfoMall Interactions with ECS ECS Advisory Board Meeting -- 29 March 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Will Windows NT take over the world and swamp UNIX?
  • Small organizations are starting with Windows95 clients and growing their networks by adding Windows NT servers
  • correspondingly software vendors focus on win32 interface
The WebWindows concept says that NT versus UNIX isn't the key issue -- rather most software will not be written for NT, UNIX, MVS, VMS etc but rather to "Web Interfaces"
One can expect that a new class of optimized operating systems will be developed that are designed solely to support web interfaces and web technology
  • Note this new operating system (written in Java?) need not directly support users but only (Web) agents
Timing of these trends is unclear and could be critical
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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