From: wild@access.digex.com (wildstrom)
Subject: Re: Win NT - what is it???
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rmohns@vax.clarku.edu writes:

>Chicogo is what I want to use.  It is, like NT, a true OS with thrue 
>multitasking and multithreading, but has much smaller hardware requirements, 
>and does not meet DOD security specs (but that's okay since it will probably 
>be more of a client OS).  there are a few otehr differences, but those are the 
>main ones.  There was an article about Chicogo in PC Week last August.
>	The Chicogo and NT development groups at Micro$oft are in intense 
>competition, so it is said.  However, I think a different relationship will 
>arise: NT will be the server (*N*etowrk *T*echonology), Chicogo will be the 
>client machine.  It is entirely possible for different OS's to work together, 
>partly because Chicogo is just a small NT (think of it that way, anyway).  
>(Novell Netware creates an OS on the server that is truly not DOS, so don't
>scorn the concept.)
>	Anyway, don't expect it soon.  Windows 4 and DOS 7 are supposed to be 
>released next year (read: see it in 95), so I expect that Chicogo won't be out 
>til '96.
How does Chicago differ from the (sort of) announced Windows 4. My understand-
ing, at least from the InbfoWorld accound of Windows 4 is that it's sort
of NT Lite--a full-fledged operating system but lacking server and security
features that make NT such a bear. Is W4 not true multithreading?
