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[edit] Similarity to Windows registry

Is this concept similar to that of Windows Registry? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Soumyasch (talk • 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)

[edit] NetInfo name copyrighted?

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

[edit] Housekeeping

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