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  2. From: warrl@blarg.net (Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin)
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  4. Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
  5. Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 02:29:31 GMT
  6. Organization: None -- just look at my desk!
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  13. Gil Colgate <gcolgate@siruis.com> wrote:
  14.  
  15. >Until NT supports less than 1 millisecond latency, support for direct access to hardware 
  16. >acceleration, then I won't be using it. Most games will be written for '95... if they also run on 
  17. >NT then I'd buy it. Until then, no.
  18.  
  19. You will never buy an OS significantly more sophisticated than Windows
  20. 3.1.  This requirement you claim to have, directly contradicts a
  21. requirement everyone actually does have: stability.
  22.  
  23. Most games will be written for Win95, beginning in 1997 and ending in
  24. about 2000.  After that, they'll be written for a *real* OS -- NT
  25. maybe, Unix maybe, and perhaps running the Win95 front end -- or
  26. they'll be written for dedicated game machines.  Who knows, by then
  27. maybe Sega will produce a machine that is running Win95 behind the
  28. scenes... but probably they won't because their current OS is
  29. superior, being among other things more stable.
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