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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 00:17:31 GMT
- Organization: Nattering Nabobs of Negativism
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- In article <4egn0k$3d1g@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, regards@ibm.net says...
- >
- >
- >>
- >> steve.withers@ibm.net (Steve Withers) writes:
- >> > In article <4e8b8k$5ql@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>, Stauf wrote:
- >> > >
- >> > .......
- >> >
- >> > >This whole thing is stupid!!! Win95 is not a "stepping Stone to
- NT"!!!
- >> > >It is WAY PAST it!!! I don't see how anyone that is not on a
- network
- >> > >can buy NT... That is really stupid!!! Win NT was optimizes for
- >> > >Networks ONLY!!! NOT FOR ANY PCs NOT ON A NETWORK!!!
- >> > >Almost no software runs on NT since it uses 32-bit code. Win 95
- is
- >> > >very compatible with all programs since it is a 32-bit OS with
- 16-bit
- >> > >Code!! For any PC not on a network there is no competition
- between NT
- >> > >and 95!!! Windows 95 is the obvious choice...
- >> >
- >
- >
- >Actually, NT will run DOS and 16-bit Windows apps as well as its own
- native software.
- >It will also multi-task its win16 session *UNLIKE* Win95. Its memory
- protection
- >is also far superiour to Win95 (every wonder why its mem reqs are so
- high?)
- >
- >How come Win95 can't multitask Win16 apps when NT and OS/2 can? Which
- OS' did you
- >say was inferiour?
- >
- >
- >> ***>>>>>Yea right? That is why even the OS/2 programmers are
- conceding that Win 95 is about
- >to put them out of business.
- >
- >Who are "the OS/2 progammers" you are referring to?
- >
- >
- >-----------REGARDS!------------------------------------------
- >REGARDS@ibm.net -- Reginald T. Mathusz
- >Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. -- T. Jefferson
- >
- OS/2 and Win95 share one big problem which NT doesn't. While each app
- (or at least each 32-bit app in Win95) has its own address space, there
- is critical O/S data and code in Win95 and OS/2 which are visible in the
- address space of each app. Thus, an ill-behaved app can, in OS/2 or 95,
- overwrite operating system junk and bring down the house. This doesn't
- happen in NT, but avoiding it causes a performance hit. For an example
- of an OS/2 program which will do this, get KILLOS2.EXE on Compu$erve GO
- CANOPUS. For an example of a Win95 program which does this, browse the
- O'Reilly/Andrew Schulman web page at http://www.ora.com/windows.
- (Another big NT performance hit is caused by code in "C"/C++ for
- portability instead of assembly.)
-
- I think NT will probably succeed eventually because its main problem,
- its performance hit, is getting less, and the average machine is getting
- more powerful. When they start selling Packard Bell 200 MHz P6's at
- Circuit City with 32 MB for $1500, no one will care how slow NT is.
-
-