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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT??
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 01:32:48 -0500
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- In article <4ejomh$8sc@news.manawatu.gen.nz>,
- nirvana@manawatu.gen.nz (Aer0 Zeppelin) wrote:
- >steve.withers@ibm.net (Steve Withers) wrote:
- >
- ......
-
- >>Perhaps among Microsoft's 'yester-tech' operating systems.
- >
- >..I have been running the beta for 5mths, upgrade quite recently and I
- >have found Win95 much nicer in multi-tasking than os/2. Warp is slow
- >and grinds the HD.
-
- I have 16MB and it doesn't grind my hard drive. With an un-tuned, 8MB
- system running Word 6.0 (which needs 6MB all by itself) I can
- understand your predicament.
-
- Butit is the lack of RAM degrading your system - not OS/2. You will
- see the same thing with Win95 after starting a few *active* apps
- (as opposed to merely task-switching loaded apps a la DOSHELL).
-
- >>If you want backward compatibility, stability *and* smooth pre-emptive
- >>multitasking of both native and 'legacy' apps - you choose OS/2 Warp.
- >
- >Native Win95 programs (NT too) runn just as well as native apps under
- >OS/2.
-
- That's good. But they lack the OO support and - often - threads, too.
-
- >>Six million people did last year - one million in December '95 alone.
- >
- >How many millions of win95 have been sold?
-
- Not the point. The point is that OS/2 - the 'dead OS' remember - is selling
- 50% better *after* Win95 was released than it was before then.
-
- >>Without the preloads, Win95 didn't even come close. Upgraders are
- >>going for OS/2.
- >
- >ummmm very few...me thinks they are regretting it now, as win95 is
- >standard. Isnt it just great that Win95 can run, NT, Dos, 3.1x and
- >win95 programs...hmmm good broad range.
-
- All 197 apps Win95 apps.....compared to the 2,000 OS/2 apps - and all
- the DOS/Win apps they have in common.
-
- Your Win95 software is still hidden in the back pages of your 1996
- calendar.
-
- Mine's on my hard drives. That's the difference.
-
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- Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand
- steve.withers@ibm.net / swithers@vnet.ibm.com
- Canadian since '58 / Kiwi since '87 / OS2 since '92
- Life just keeps getting better!
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