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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes!)
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 18:37:53 GMT
- Organization: Texas Instruments
- Message-ID: <4eocu1$9@tilde.csc.ti.com>
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- In article <4eik5e$65p@news.aladdin.co.uk>, gns@aladdin.co.uk says...
- >
- >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...
-
- This guy appears to be so wrong I don't know if he's joking!
-
- In March of last year I got sick of WFW 3.11 crashes and bought
- NT 3.5 for Workstations. We have a 486DX2-66 with 24Meg RAM and 1.3Gig
- SCSI HD. It is used on our home PC as a family OS and boy
- are we glad. We have no desire to go to '95, It runs all our software
- (most of it is 16-bit), it's VERY stable, we all love having our own
- accounts, we surf the net constantly and take personal pleasure in
- flushing errant programs that used to kill our system! And oh, it's
- a bit faster than WFW 3.11, and OS/2 3.1. The only advantage '95 may
- have is the ability to play games and a nifty user interface for the
- computer illiterate that seems to get in the way of more experienced
- users.
-
- This is NT running successfully in a standalone home PC enviornment.
-
-
- Jason
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