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- From: grantp@usa.pipeline.com(Pete)
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- Subject: Re: Win95 vs. NT4 for Visual C++ 4.0
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 10:04:35 GMT
- Organization: Kalevi, Inc.
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- On Mar 05, 1996 20:09:27 in article <Re: Win95 vs. NT4 for Visual C++ 4.0>,
- 'pitre@n5160d.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Pitre)' wrote:
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-
- >In article <DnswvD.5yE@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> woopkb00@ccmail.ca.boeing.com
-
- >(Paul K Woods) writes:
- >> We are preparing to upgrade our development platform to 32bit. Are thre
-
- >> any compelling reasons to select Windows NTW 4.0 as an operating system
-
- >> rather than Windows 95? We will be using MS Visual C++ V4.0.
- >
- >Win95 kernal is newer and buggier.
-
- Not sure what NTW 4.0 is, but MS Windows NT 4.0 is still in Beta mode.
- Current released version is 3.51. I use both, mostly NT though, and have
- found no problems when jumping to Windows 95 platform. I use MSVC++4.0
- on both platforms.
-
- >NT kernal aspires to be as good as UNIX and doesn't completely fall on
- its
- >face. NT has the 32bit NT file system option(maybe HPFS also). I don't
- know
- >what file system Win95 has other than FAT. I've programmed a little with
-
- >Borland C++ 4.5 on NT and it seems like NT is solid(never crashes).
- >NT sort of multitasks. It would probably do it better if I bothered to set
- some
- >parameters
- >
- What is meant by "sort of multitasks"?
-
- >but I live fine with the defaults. I don't know if Win95 multitasks or not
- in
- >the real world. Win95 seems to have more available device drivers but the
-
- >situation with NT is pretty good.
-
- Win95 is a multitasking OS. It's also pretty good.
- I agree, however, that NT is a more robust development platform.
-
- --
- Pete Grant
- Kalevi, Inc.
- Software Engineering & development
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