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- From: jlrowe@holli.com (Jerry Rowe)
- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
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- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 02:17:13 GMT
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- In <312B09D0.CD@mts.se>, Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> writes:
- >Ned Kelly wrote:
- >
- >> Even at $30 a meg, the RAM upgrade for me to use NT would still cost me
- >> $450 or so, not oncluding buying the NT itself. Both of my Linux boxes
- >
- >
- >You can't compre the cost of NT with a freeware OS who doesn't cost anything.
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- Actually, while Linux can be free, it also is being marketed commercially now, and
- software is included. And it outruns NT very well. Check Petrely in the Latest Infoworld.
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- >
- >Instead You should compare it (if You really need comparing) to commercial
- >unices like Solaris x86, SCO, Unixware and Nextstep.
- >
- >Freeware software will *always* be cheaper than commercial software.
- >
- >For my purposes NT (and OS/2) is a great general platform for doing what I
- >want (I also have FreeBSD 2.1 to toy with if I feel like using some unix).
- >
- >For you, maybe Linux is your best main OS. And for someone else maybe XX is
- >the best OS for him.
- >
- >m a r t i n n
- >
- >--
- >Martin Nisshagen martin@mts.se (MIME 1.0) "verdi + callas =
- >MTS Technology, Sweden http://www.mts.se/martin 100% pleasure..."
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