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- From: koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 30 Jan 1996 17:10:50 -0700
- Organization: HP Fort Collins Site
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- In-reply-to: henryn@storage.tandem.com's message of 26 Jan 1996 04:53:06 GMT
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- henryn@storage.tandem.com (norman_henry) wrote:
-
- > Say what? If you mean that Windows NT = Windows 95, you're wrong. NT
- > is quite a different beast. NT is a sophisticated operating system.
-
- No, I am not saying that at all. I'm saying NT and 95 are both Windows,
- in that they both will run programs written to the WIN32 API.
-
- The assertion Michael made that NT is no closer to 95 that VMS is to 95
- is simply absurd. I know he knows better, and he knows I know he knows
- better.
-
- > only thing they have in common is the string "Windows".
-
- No, they also have both an API and an ABI in common. You can, for
- example, run Lightwave on both, as well as a great many other things.
-
- > > Second: Windows 95 *has* memory protection
- >
- > For 32-bit applications, not so for 16-bit dittos. To me this sounds
- > like selling a car with only two wheels, with the argument "this car
- > has wheels!" Now try and drive that car... ;)
-
- True, but even today most major apps written recently (LW etc) are 32
- bit, and the majority of the OS is as well.
-
- Look, don't paint me as a Windows advocate here: I hate the thing with a
- passion. But it is never advisible to pretend things about it that
- aren't true. I hate it for reasons that have nothing to do with whether
- it shares an API with NT, or whether it has memory protection.
-
- - steve
-