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- From: aq722@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John Gregor)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 1 Feb 1996 01:54:23 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
- Message-ID: <4ep6gf$pr4@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <oj6n37ea1fn.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com> <oj6g2cx441h.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com>
- Reply-To: aq722@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John Gregor)
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- In a previous article, koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) says:
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- >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.
-
- Where I work we run both NT and Win95, and this works pretty well actually.
- We can run the same programs under both. There is a common interface that
- is now being supported on NT, 95, and on a wide variety of hardware
- platforms such as PCs, SGI, DEC Alpha, and many others, some of which have
- multiprocessors.
-
- Thinking any single platform proprietary OS can compete with this is sheer
- folly. Its a standards based world out there, folks, and you just can't
- get more standard than Windows. Even Unix is dead, and believe me the
- major Unix vendors know it. Look at all the frantic consolidation and
- mergers recently, and the frantic scrambling for Unixes to be able to run
- Win32 programs to stave off the end for a little longer. So too is Mac as
- good as dead.
-
- John
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