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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT??
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 22:48:53 GMT
- Organization: DS9
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- On Tue, 06 Feb 96 22:39:40 GMT, joshkerr@mail.utexas.edu (Joshua Adam
- Kerr) wrote:
-
- >I don't know what the fuck any of you freaks are talking about. NT is the
- >future. It is a fully secure 32bit operatiing system with advanced features
- >and security that goes way beyond windows 95. 95 is a stepping stone to NT.
- >95 is compatible with all your old 16bit stuff, but it also runs 32bit NT
- >programs. Did you know that in order to get the windows 95 seal on your
- >product that it must also work on NT? Ever wonder why????
- >
- >Joshua
- >
- >In article <4epmdq$jd1@news.nstn.ca>, gator@atcon.com wrote:
- >>In <310e8755.62942912@news.ais.net>, bherman@ally.ios.com (PC_Clone) writes:
- >>>gator@atcon.com wrote:
- >>>
- >>>>In <4ejomh$8sc@news.manawatu.gen.nz>, nirvana@manawatu.gen.nz (Aer0 Zeppelin)
- >> writes:
- >>>>>steve.withers@ibm.net (Steve Withers) wrote:
- >>>>>Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (alt.destroy.microsoft)
- >>>>>
- >>>>>
- >>>>>>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.
- >>>>>
- >>>>>...I have been running the beta for 5mths, upgrade quite recently and I
- >>>>>have found Win95 much nicer in multi-tasking than os/2. Warp is slow
- >>>>>and grinds the HD.
- >>>>
- >>>>Ya think ? Well you could try maybe setting up WARP for your system, because
- >>>>there is no way Win 95 multitasking is better, it pumps up the priority so
- >> that the
- >>>>app you are useing apears fast, but the background suffers.
- >>>>
- >>>>>>If you want backward compatibility, stability *and* smooth pre-emptive
- >>>>>>multitasking of both native and 'legacy' apps - you choose OS/2 Warp.
- >>>>>
- >>>>>Native Win95 programs (NT too) runn just as well as native apps under
- >>>>>OS/2.
- >>>>
- >>>>If you don't count memory or crash protection, multitreading, etc.
- >>>>
- >>>>>
- >>>>>>Six million people did last year - one million in December '95 alone.
- >>>>>
- >>>>>How many millions of win95 have been sold?
- >>>>
- >>>>250,000 in Descember I believe.
- >>>>
- >>>>>
- >>>>>>Without the preloads, Win95 didn't even come close. Upgraders are
- >>>>>>going for OS/2.
- >>>>>
- >>>>>ummmm very few...me thinks they are regretting it now, as win95 is
- >>>>>standard. Isnt it just great that Win95 can run, NT, Dos, 3.1x and
- >>>>>win95 programs...hmmm good broad range.
- >>>>
- >>>>OS/2 can run more DOS and 3.1x and I would venture to say NT programs that
- >> Win
- >>>>95 can, but I'm sure you researched that.
- >>>>
- >>>>gator@atcon.com
- >>>>Team OS/2 N.S.
- >>>>Canada
- >>>>
- >>>Since u are a member of OS/2 I am supprised that u don't know about
- >>>your own OS, OS/2 WARP uses the REAL win 3.1, that u must buy
- >>>seperate. It CANNOT run NT or native 95 apps becaue the windows on
- >>
- >>Buy seperate ? What do you mean ? Mine came engineered as part of OS/2
- >>thank you very much.
- >>
- >>>OS/2 is only 16 bit. I have used OS/2 2.1, Warp, 3.1 and I am
- >>>currently dual booting 95 and NT. Also OS/2 cannot run many DOS and
- >>>windos programs, you are mainly saying that another OS is better at
- >>>running an app in it's native OS, that is a crock of s**t. True 95
- >>
- >>I NEVER said that it was better to run in an OS that the application is not
- >> native
- >>to, but you certainly are good at trying to put words into people's mouths.
- >>
- >>>cannnot run some DOS progs, but the same with OS/2.
- >>>-Bill
- >>
- >>Well I am running WinZip 5.6 for WINDOWS NT, that is where I get my basis from,
- >>wether this is a Windows NT native app or not, I don't know, but that's what it
- >>
- >>said on the box, and it's running in Win-OS/2.
- >>
- >>
- >>OS/2 can run more DOS and Windows 16 bit programs that Windows 95 can, and
- >>that is a fact.
- >>
- >>gator@atcon.com
- >>Team OS/2 N.S.
- >>Canada
- >>
- blah blah blah,i.e., who the fuck cares???
-