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Holistic Issues

    Holistic issues (an operating system taken as a monolithic whole) include such things as reliability, speed, and ease of use.

• Cost
• Hardware Supported
• Hardware-Software Integration
• Installation and Set-up
• plug and play
• live swapping
• upgrades
• upgrading Macintosh
• upgrading to Mac OS X
• upgrading Windows
• default settings
• manufacturer comments
• Utilization of Resources
• Scalability
• summary
• connections
• multi-tasking
• multi-processing
• number of processors supported
• changing parts
• Connectivity
• connection methods
• File Systems
• Inter-OS Communications
• File and Print Servers
• Data Base Systems
• Mail Systems
• Internet
• Distributed Processing
• Massively Parallel Processing
• Serving Applications
• Cross Platform Emulation
• mixed OS operations
• File Systems
• Reliability
• downtime costs
• stability
• Blue Screen of Death
• Windows Registry
• Windows DLLs
• device drivers
• Failure Handling and Failure Recovery
• Security
• general notes on security
• need for security
• kinds of security
• physical security
• lack of givernment support
• “under the radar”
• internet security
• UNIX vs. Windows NT security
• Windows C2 certification
• OpenVMS security
• man-in-the-middle attacks
• race condition attacks
• denial of service attacks
• password attacks
• security logs
• spoofing
• SMB and firewalls (Scour)
• Speed
• summary
• hardware considerations
• servers
• benchmarks and tests
• Windows NT Registry
• hardware acceleration
• Sophistication
• Ease of Use
• Maintenance and Administration
• reliability
• costs of maintenance
• changing parts
• live installation
• system patches
• automation and scheduled tasks
• remote administration
• Zero Administration Windows
• Disabled Access
• Release Dates
• Development and APIs
• programming languages
• Ada
• ALGOL
• assembly
• C
• C++
• COBOL
• FORTRAN
• Java
• Pascal
• Perl
• PL/I
• Content Creation
• Graphics
• Print
• Digital Photography
• Music
• Animation
• Video
• MultiMedia
• Games
• Web

    After numerous requests for specific recommendations, OSdata.com now includes recommended systems for different kinds of content creation. See each individual web page for the recommendations for each field of content creation.

further reading

    See John Kirch’s article “Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX” at http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/, June 4, 1998, web page.

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• Reliability
• Failure Handling and Failure Recovery
• Security
• Speed
• Sophistication
• Ease of Use
• Maintenance and Administration
• Development and APIs

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    Last Updated: February 17, 2002

    Created: June 4, 1998

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