Windows NT vs Unix as an operating system

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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 …

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…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