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- From: nedkelly@eagle.ais.net (Ned Kelly)
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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
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- Date: 2 Feb 1996 04:06:40 GMT
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- NCC-1701E? (tomcat@eden.rutgers.edu) wrote:
- : If you ever spend some time in Windows NT you will find that most features in
- : Windows 95 is in Windows NT as well, and NT has more. There are people out
- : there who look for stability rather than just pretty pictures and sound. Not
- : everyone is as shallow as you are... I bet you simply go for the RESET button
- : when getting a general protection fault?
-
- Maybe intelligent people with considerable disposable money. Face it, NT
- is expen$ive. From my expierence, once you get Linux running good, it
- keeps running good, like the Energizer Rabbit(tm). Therein lies the
- biggest problem with Linux. It can be a pain in the arse at times to
- install. However, so can any other OS. NT has the advantage of running
- commonly available software, which is also getting expen$ive. Linux can
- run DOSemu, but the DOSemu user will have to scour the suburbs for old
- DOS software to use, which will end up often being cheap, like old
- Commodore(!) software.
-
- If money's no object, NT can very well be a good choice, but some of us
- aren't so lucky. Cost-effectiveness is one of the biggest reasons I use
- Linux.
-
- --
- Ned Kelly Lives!!!!!! Tired of the high costs of software? Try Linux UNIX!
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