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- From: "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: impressions of window
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.1480.23578@dosgate>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 15:43:24 EST
- Reply-To: "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Lines: 33
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- David Boles wrote on 07-30-92 regarding IMPRESSIONS OF WINDOWS NT:
-
- DB>So what we are going to be offered sometime in 1993, is an OS that is
- DB>partly targeted at things like a Silicon Graphics 4-8 R4000 processor
- DB>compute/file server that will only allow one person on at a time.
-
- Hold it. Whoever gave your presentation obviously didn't have his act
- together. The server product that Microsoft is planning to debut will
- consist of NT **AND** Lan Manager for NT, which is most definitely
- multi-user.
-
- DB>Start clicking, however, and you quickly realize that things
- DB>are _very_ shallow (i.e., fancy looking and sounding icons have
- DB>nothing but simple text display windows that pop up when activated, the
- DB>help system wasn't working in the examples I tried, etc.).
-
- The version of NT being distributed to developers is a **pre-BETA**. The
- intent of the release was to get developers going on the Win32 32-bit API,
- **not** to test an end-user type product. That process starts in
- September when the wide-area BETA goes out.
-
- DB>It was the most underwhelming first meeting I have ever had with a
- DB>piece of product.
-
- As you approached it from an end-user perspective this certainly does not
- surprise me.
-
- Roj
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