Windows NT as a personal or intranet server
Larry Press · Communications of the ACM · 1996
personal computing acceptably, and recouped its investment.Its support of CD-ROM followed a similar pattern-hanging in from its first CD-ROM conference [11], through lean years, to today's booming market for drives and flood of titles.With 16MB memory machines increasingly affordable, NT is catching on as you see in the accompanying table.Of course, NT must compete with Unix, Mac OS, and Netware as Internet servers, each of which may enjoy some advantage-high-end scalability, excellent multimedia development tools, fast file serving, and so forth.The situation is reminiscent of IBM in the 1950s and 1960s.When it freely admitted to not giving the most "bang per buck" on hardware performance, but as it said, the hardware was just the tip of the iceberg, and the marketplace agreed.But Microsoft will not admit to less bang per buck.While slower than Netware for uniprocessor serving, performance has improved with new versions [3].For larger application servers, Windows NT as a Personal or Intranet Server