Talk:NetInfo

Similarity to Windows registry
Is this concept similar to that of Windows Registry? &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by Soumyasch (talk &bull; contribs).


 * I took that statement out because I thought it was misleading. AFAIK, the only thing in common is it’s a central repository of usernames, groups, and related info (see the Data section)—whereas Windows tries to store everything in there.  But open to discussing this.  Barefootguru 18:09, 19 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I remember discussing that with a bunch of NeXT-diehards at WWDC one year, and consensus was that the Registry along with a few other features of later Windows were indeed "inspired" by features in NeXTSTEP. I don't know of a reference for that though, and wouldn't want to add it in without better confirmation.


 * NetInfo's only similarity to the Windows registry is that both are used to  store administrative information.  The Windows Registry is per-host, and rather primitive.   NetInfo was a distributed, hierarchical database, with provisions for redundancy and automatic synchronization between domains.  i know of one installation where a network of four thousand NeXT computers were administered by only five full-time system administrators.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.157.14 (talk) 02:16, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

NetInfo name copyrighted?
Is the netinfo name copyrighted? Because I thought that the name Net Info belongs to Net Info

Housekeeping
'NetInfo man page' is now a dead link. Replace? 24.245.3.7 (talk) 04:27, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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