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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT??
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 21:06:40 GMT
- Organization: American Information Systems, Inc.
- Message-ID: <310e8755.62942912@news.ais.net>
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- gator@atcon.com wrote:
-
- >In <4ejomh$8sc@news.manawatu.gen.nz>, nirvana@manawatu.gen.nz (Aer0 Zeppelin) writes:
- >>steve.withers@ibm.net (Steve Withers) wrote:
- >>Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (alt.destroy.microsoft)
- >>
- >>
- >>>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...
- >>>
- >>>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.
- >
- >Ya think ? Well you could try maybe setting up WARP for your system, because
- >there is no way Win 95 multitasking is better, it pumps up the priority so that the
- >app you are useing apears fast, but the background suffers.
- >
- >>>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.
- >
- >If you don't count memory or crash protection, multitreading, etc.
- >
- >>
- >>>Six million people did last year - one million in December '95 alone.
- >>
- >>How many millions of win95 have been sold?
- >
- >250,000 in Descember I believe.
- >
- >>
- >>>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.
- >
- >OS/2 can run more DOS and 3.1x and I would venture to say NT programs that Win
- >95 can, but I'm sure you researched that.
- >
- >gator@atcon.com
- >Team OS/2 N.S.
- >Canada
- >
- Since u are a member of OS/2 I am supprised that u don't know about
- your own OS, OS/2 WARP uses the REAL win 3.1, that u must buy
- seperate. It CANNOT run NT or native 95 apps becaue the windows on
- OS/2 is only 16 bit. I have used OS/2 2.1, Warp, 3.1 and I am
- currently dual booting 95 and NT. Also OS/2 cannot run many DOS and
- windos programs, you are mainly saying that another OS is better at
- running an app in it's native OS, that is a crock of s**t. True 95
- cannnot run some DOS progs, but the same with OS/2.
- -Bill
-