Windows NT vs Unix as an operating system

Title: Windows NT vs Unix as an operating system
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Windows NT vs Unix as an operating system
Evolution & Development History In the late 1960s a combined project between researchers at MIT, Bell Labs and General Electric led to the design of a third generation of computer operating system known as MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service). It was envisaged as a computer utility, a machine that would support hundreds of simultaneous timesharing users. They envisaged one huge machine providing computing power for everyone in Boston. The idea that machines as powerful …showed first 75 words of 4740 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 4740 total…with a fixed user context, it would be best to use a Windows NT service (again, the online help is invaluable for this information). A Windows NT service is equivalent to a 'daemon' running with fixed user credentials, with the added benefit of being administrable locally or remotely through standard Windows NT administration facilities. For instances when a process must 'impersonate' a particular user, it's suggested that a server program be written that communicates thr

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