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`Beta users wowed by Daytona's speed
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`Abstract (summary)
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`Since 1993, Microsoft Corp. has been promising that Daytona - the code name for both Windows NT 3.5
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`and Windows NT Advanced Server 3.5 - will be smaller and faster than the 3.1 version it will replace. Beta
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`users said Microsoft has delivered solid enhancements to the Windows NT upgrade. The software includes a
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`more efficient TCP/IP stack, better management support, and enhanced remote access capabilities.
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`Early users of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT upgrade are impressed with its performance and features,
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`including a more efficient TCP/IP stack, better management support and enhanced remote access
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`capabilities.
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`Microsoft has been promising since last year that Daytona--the code name for both Windows NT 3.5 and
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`Windows NT Advanced Server (NTAS) 3.5--will be smaller and faster than the 3.1 versions will replace.
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`Microsoft announced details about the software in April and shipped beta copies to 10,000 customers two
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`weeks ago.
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`Besides improving its performance, the company promised that the client-side software would consume
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`less memory. For the server, Microsoft developed a faster Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
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`stack, better ties to Novell, Inc. NetWare local-area networks and enhanced management features for
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`control of Windows NT workstations across enterprise nets.
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`Beta users said Microsoft has delivered solid enhancements.
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`Boro Marinkovich, manager of advanced systems at George Weston, Ltd., a holding company based in
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`Toronto, said he will need the faster TCP/IP transport in Daytona because of his company's growing use of
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`TCP/IP. He is running a beta copy of the server version of Daytona and has noticed a sizable increase in
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`the transport stack's speed.
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`J. Allard, program manager for TCP)IP connectivity at Microsoft, said Daytona's TCP(IP stack supports the
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`Network Basic I/O Extended User Interface (NETBEUI) transport protocol and runs up to 30% faster than
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`the stack used in Windows NT 3.1 and Windows NTAS 3.1. Microsoft licensed the earlier stack from Spider
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`Systems, Inc. of the U.K.
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`Other users are running extensive tests with the Advanced Server version of Daytona and like what they
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`have seen of the software's network capabilities.
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`Briscoe Stephens advanced science information systems manager at the U.S. Space Science Laboratory at
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`Marshall Space Plight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has been running pre-beta versions of Windows NT 3.5 and
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`Windows NTAS 3.5 on a dozen Intel Corp.-based machines for more than a month.
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`"We are pushing some heavy-duty mail and file-transfer applications across our networks, and we're only
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`finding a few very minor bugs," Stephens said. "I'm so secure with using this operating system that I
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`installed it on my boss's machine," he added.
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`Stephens has been most satisfied with Daytona's support for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP),
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`which allows him to manage a dozen Daytona workstations from a central site. He also is taking advantage
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`of Daytona's ability to support TCP/IP, Novell's Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) protocol and NETBEUI.
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`Using DHCP has helped Stephens cut in half the time it takes to configure a Windows NT network.
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`"We're in the process of putting in a lot of TCP/IP subnets, and to have their IP addresses automatically set
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`up for you is going to be a godsend in terms of saving money and manpower," Stephens said.
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`He also gave a thumbs-up to the remote connectivity technology embedded in the Advanced Server
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`version of Daytona. The remote access services included in the software feature has support for a new
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`multiprotocol Paint-to-Point Protocol that allows remote users to gain access to enterprise corporate
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`TCP/IP, IPX and NETBEUI networks.
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`Some beta users are also finding Daytona attractive as a client operating system.
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`"We're using Daytona as a souped-up client in lieu of Chicago [the code name for the next version of
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`Windows], and it's running 16-bit applications better than Windows 3.1 ever did," said Arthur Tisi, chief
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`systems officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. "It has a lot less overhead, which is
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`allowing us to use it in a more widespread fashion as a client than we would have ever thought of using
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`Windows NT 3.1."
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`DAYTONA RACES
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`Microsoft's move toward Windows NT 3.5
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`AUGUST 1993
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`General availability of Windows NT 3.1
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`MARCH 1994
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`Announces Daytona, also known as Windows NT 3.5 and Windows NTAS 3.5
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`MAY 1994
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`First beta copies of Daytona shipped
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`JUNE 1994
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`Second beta version of Daytona is expected
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`AUGUST 1994
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`Daytona to be generally available
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`LATE 1995
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`Cairo, an object-oriented version of Windows NT, expected to debut
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`Copyright Network World Inc. May 16, 1994
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`Indexing (details)
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`Subject
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`Windows;
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`Product testing;
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`Processing speed;
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`Operating systems;
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`End users;
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`Computer upgrading;
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`Advantages
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`Location
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`US
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`Company / organization Name:
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`Microsoft Corp
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`Ticker:
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`DUNS:
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`MSFT
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`08-146-6849
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`Classification
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`9190: United States
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`Title
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`Author
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`9120: Product specific treatment
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`5240: Software & systems
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`Beta users wowed by Daytona's speed
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`Burns, Christine
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`Publication title
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`Network World
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`Volume
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`Issue
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`Pagination
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`Number of pages
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`11
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`20
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`1
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`2
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`Publication year
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`1994
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`Publication date
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`May 16, 1994
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`Publisher
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`Network World Inc.
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`Place of publication
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`Southborough
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`Country of publication
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`United States
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`Publication subject
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`Communications--Computer Applications
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`ISSN
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`08877661
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`Source type
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`Trade Journals
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`Language of publication English
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`Document type
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`PERIODICAL
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`Accession number
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`00862177
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`ProQuest document ID
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`215925085
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`Copyright
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`Copyright Network World Inc. May 16, 1994
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