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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: 1 Feb 1996 06:40:45 GMT
- Organization: Nova Scotia Technology Network
- Message-ID: <4epn9d$jd1@news.nstn.ca>
- References: <4ef48q$rik@news.iag.net> <4emcco$kr0@news2.aimnet.com>
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- In <4emcco$kr0@news2.aimnet.com>, dd7@ix.netcom.com (Oliver Closoff) writes:
- >John Linder <jgl@iag.net> 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...
- >>>
- >>> Perhaps among Microsoft's 'yester-tech' operating systems.
- >>>
- >>> If you want backward compatibility, stability *and* smooth pre-emptive
- >>> multitasking of both native and 'legacy' apps - you choose OS/2 Warp.
- >>>
- >>> Six million people did last year - one million in December '95 alone.
- >>>
- >>> Without the preloads, Win95 didn't even come close. Upgraders are
- >>> going for OS/2.
- >>>
- >>> --
- >>> ********************************************************
- >>> Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand
- >>> steve.withers@ibm.net / swithers@vnet.ibm.com
- >>> Canadian since '58 / Kiwi since '87 / OS2 since '92
- >>> Life just keeps getting better!
- >>> ********************************************************
- >
- >
- >>***>>>>>Yea right? That is why even the OS/2 programmers are conceding that Win 95 is about to put them out of business.
- >
- >Actually Win95 is NOT a 32-bit OS. Has some 32-bit features like disk
- >and printing modules, but essentially remains mostly 16-bit.
- >
- >As for running 32-bit apps, NT can run anyhting 95 runs. Inorder to
- >have the coveted "Runs on Windows 95" sticker, software vendors are
- >required by Microsoft to make it runnable on NT. So all the 95
- >versions of Microsoft Office now run on NT as well as 95.
- >
- >NT is just much more efficient in terms of memory use than 95. You can
- >access up to 4GB of memory all in one plne as opposed to the
- >memory-paging mechanism in 95. Sure it requires 16Mb or even 32MB to
- >run, but Win 3.0 used 4Mb when 640K was standard in PC's with DOS.
- >
- >
- >
-
- I hope NT CAN'T run all the Win 95 stickered apps, because I wonder what it would
- do at ever the sight of QEMM 8, Softwram (laff) or Magnaram 95 ? :P
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