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- From: jessea@vpmeu015.me.vp.com (Jesse W. Asher)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: Is Windows NT worth the trouble?
- Keywords: NT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.134221.7039@vpbuild.vp.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 13:42:21 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.162124.26309@utkux1.utk.edu>
- Sender: @vpbuild.vp.com
- Organization: Varco-Pruden Buildings
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- In article <1992Nov14.162124.26309@utkux1.utk.edu>, harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp) wrote the following:
- >
- >Recently I have been reading articles on Windows NT and most say that this
- >will be the best thing since sliced bread. I have also been considering
- >Microsoft's offer for the NT beta at $69 because when the final release
- >ships they will send you that for free (I guess NT will retail somewhere
- >around $200 from what I have heard).
- >
- >They say that the beta requires 12MB of ram and likes 16MB. Right now I
- >only have 8. I have been thinking for the past several months of making
- >the jump to 16 anyway. Is NT a good enough reason to go ahead and do it?
-
- We have NT beta here and I'm very impressed. This is NOT windows. This
- is unix with windows laid on top of it. It also is an improvement over
- unix in some areas like scheduling. I'm a unix bigot, but windows NT is
- promising to bring the best of both worlds to the desktop, and if they
- pull it off correctly, unix is in big trouble _on the desktop_.
-
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