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- From: traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: SMALL Excerpt from "Windows Sources"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.104851.13621@rtf.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 10:48:51 GMT
- References: <47798@ogicse.ogi.edu> <1992Dec30.031820.21424@netcom.com>
- Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
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- In article <1992Dec30.031820.21424@netcom.com> timbol@netcom.com (Mike Timbol) writes:
- >The point is that the shipping NT should require 8 MB minimum, but this
- >minimum doesn't mean the same thing as the OS/2 minimum. As Petzold
- >suggested (although he may be pushing it) NT should be much more usable
- >in 8 MB (its stated minimum) than OS/2 is in 4 MB.
-
- One detects a certain amount of bias present when you resort to comparing a
- vapourware product (the 8MB Windows NT) to an existing (but slow) product
- (the 4MB OS/2 2.0).
-
- Why don't we all just use OS/2 for now and when Windows NT runs happily
- in 8MB of RAM we can all swap to that? That sounds fair enough now,
- doesn't it?
-
-
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- Michael Traub
- BT Customer Systems, Brighton Systems Centre. traub@btcs.bt.co.uk
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