Subject: Re: Web Interactivity From: nathan@wantree.com.au Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 21:24:45 +0800

To: online-news@marketplace.com
X-Mailer: AIR Mail 3.X (SPRY, Inc.)
Sender: owner-online-news@marketplace.com
Precedence: bulk
Status: RO
X-Status: 

I get the impression that Jeremy and Rex are arguing the same point - from 
different ends.

This is less an argument of Unix vs Windows as it is Server vs Client.  The 
Net was created and supported initially by the powerful Unix/TCP/IP servers. 
 Yet as most people don't and never will have Unix on their desktop, the 
growth in the Net is due to those programs and clients being ported to their 
desktop of choice - which is more often than not Windows.

The point is that it really is not a matter of numbers of people using the 
flavour of OS that is important.  By definition there will always be many 
more clients than servers, and due to the specific nature of both types, they 
are unlikely to be the same platform (although who knows in five years time 
..)

Suffice to say that the Web would not exist without Unix and that it is 
unlikely to have become the growing force for good it is now without Windows. 
 Who is to say which is the most important?

If I can see further it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

'Nuff said.
======================================================================
Nathan Cochrane                  | Transmission of this communication
Comms,IE & Technology Journalist |     or any part thereof on the 
email:nathan@wantree.com.au      |   Microsoft Network, On-Australia
http://wantree.com.au/gamewave   | or any of its affiliates prohibited   
(Links from MSN prohibited)      |    (C) Copyright asserted 1995
----------------------------------------------------------------------  
Ed:West Australian Newspaper's GameZone computer & video game section
 C/- Forrest Centre, 219 St. George's Tce, Perth, WA, Australia 6000
      PO Box 477, Claremont, Western Australia, Australia, 6010
       Cell: 041-990-5538, Work: +61-9-482-3111, Fax: 324-1416
======================================================================




From owner-online-news@marketplace.com Thu Jul  6 13:20:45 1995
Received: from marketplace.com (majordom@marketplace.com [199.45.128.10]) by cnj.digex.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA12064 ; for ; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 13:20:43 -0400
Received: (from majordom@localhost) by marketplace.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA15681 for online-news-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 07:32:52 -0600
Received: from vector.wantree.com.au (root@vector.wantree.com.au [203.63.10.1]) by marketplace.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id HAA15676 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 07:32:41 -0600