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- From: Joseph Bissot <bissot@deltanet.com>
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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 06:19:05 +0000
- Organization: Power Computing
- Message-ID: <VA.0000002b.030fade0@main>
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- > Like Linux, I presume? What the advocates of 95 and NT forget is that the
- > shit costs a lot of money, especially the NT. And you can't rule out the
- > RAM costs, no matter how carefully one shops around. Let's face the ugly
- > fact. Some people can't afford the requirements of NT. While the cost of
- > the RAM will surely continue to fall, it's apparent to me that M$ will
- > make even more bloated software demanding even more computing power
- > faster than it can become affordable.
- >
- > Cost is the number 1 reason I use Linux.
-
- Very true... but my time is worth far more than the cost of my hardware.
- People who have important things to do can't afford the extra time. Linux is
- a time intensive OS by comparison to NT. Never mind the fact that nobody will
- build a turn-key anything on Linux.
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- Virtual Access : 3.11 build 89 (32-bit) WinNT build 1057
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