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- From: "Noel S. Hebert" <nhebert@jax.jaxnet.com>
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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 21:11:48 -0500
- Organization: Southeast Network Services, Inc.
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-
- To preface my own comments, I will in advance apologize for
- responding to a post intitially blasted rather inconsiderately
- across very diverse and unrelated newsgroups. One can only hope
- that netiquette will once again prevail.
-
- >Reginald T. Mathusz wrote:
- >
- >
- > >
- > > 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...
- > > >
- >
-
- Personally, I can only attribute the above comments to some poor
- poster who is the victim of a sudden attack of intestinal gas.
- It seems obvious that he has not used the Win/NT OS.
-
- >
- > 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?
- >
-
- Actually, this is more of an admission by the OS/2 folks of the
- pervasivness of the Win/32 API of which the Win/NT is a superior
- implementation.
-
- Perhaps you need to re-read the Microsoft propoganda. Win/95
- implements innovations first offered by Win/NT with the intent
- of eventually merging with that Win/NT technology.
-
- I think that the Sept 26 issue of PC Magazine said it all in a
- comparison of Win 3.11, Win/95, Win/NT and OS/2. In OS
- stability, it is rather easy to cause Win/95 to fall over. To
- quote them on page 162:
-
- "The results ... show that Windows 95 to be a somewhat
- better-protected operating system than its 16-bit predecessors.
- But OS/2 Warp offers a significantly more secure protection
- model than Windows 95, while Windows NT was totally invulnerable
- to every attempt to crash it."
-
- Hmmmm, enough said.
-
- I guess that's why I use it at work and at home.
-
- Do your research before making such dumb-shit comments.
-
- >
- > -----------REGARDS!------------------------------------------
- > REGARDS@ibm.net -- Reginald T. Mathusz
- > Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. -- T. Jefferson
-