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- From: pjdm@chmeee.enet.dec.com (Peter Mayne)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.004333.18349@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Dec21.154448.18823@wraxall.inmos.co.uk> <C0C8C9.5E9@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jan05.061510.21021@microsoft.com> <C0EKBM.IC9@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:43:33 GMT
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- In article <C0EKBM.IC9@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >So I take this to mean that you wouldn't be able to buy, say, Excel
- >6 in a shrink wrap and run it on your choice of platform? You'd need
- >to get Excel 6 (Intel) or Excel 6 (Alpha) depending on the machine you
- >own?
- >
- >Hmmmm....
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- It means that you buy the shrink-wrapped Excel 6 box, and NT installs whatever
- it needs from the CD, which contains the Alpha, Intel, MIPS, and Clipper
- executables, as well as the complete on-line documentation.
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- A future possibility may be ANDF, where you buy the s-w E 6 b, and NT
- compiles/translates the object code to the appropriate hardware platform.
- (Don't hold your breath on this one, though.)
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- PJDM
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