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- From: failsafe@cellar.org (Failsafe)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: NT=OS2+LANMAN-WPS
- Message-ID: <wsiRoB5w164w@cellar.org>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 06:06:07 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.005446.18550@cs.umn.edu>
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- joiner@cs.umn.edu (Jay Joiner) writes:
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- > I have the NT CD-ROM and I run OS/2 2.0, but without LANMAN. It is
- > only a hunch since I haven't run LANMAN, but I came away feeling that
- > NT is essentially OS/2 + LANMAN + Win 3.1 GUI, in terms of basic
- > operating system services. I would like to get feedback from anybody
- > who has seen both about this conclusion. If this is so, then further
- > comparisons as to hardware requirements, cost, etc. should be made
- > between these two comparable configurations.
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- Do you run OS/2 2.0 and the NT CD-ROM on the same machine? I have OS/2 up
- and running but have held off trying to install NT due to the warnings in
- the installation manual. If you have it working, pray tell, how?
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- >
- > From what I could tell so far, the command line shell for NT is CMD.EXE
- > from OS/2 (the default prompt, the START command, the '&&' separator).
- > This lends credibility to the story that MS programmer's use OS/2 1.x for
- > development. NT is certainly where the 32-bit incarnation of MSC/C++
- > 7.0 lives.
-
- Very interesting!
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-
- Steve Roth
- Philadelphia PA
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