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- From: blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan06.222856.24095@microsoft.com>
- Date: 06 Jan 93 22:28:56 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Canada Inc.
- References: <C0C8C9.5E9@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jan05.061510.21021@microsoft.com> <C0EKBM.IC9@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <C0EKBM.IC9@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan05.061510.21021@microsoft.com> blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett) writes:
- >>Nope. This would be prohibitively expensive. There is an Intel emulator,
- >>but that is only for DOS and Win16 apps. Win32 apps and the the OS itself
- >>are all compiled for the target platform.
- >
- >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?
-
- I don't speak for any of our apps groups and I surely can't speak for other
- application vendors, but it would seem to me that there is an easy solution
- to this problem. Ship a CD-ROM in the box with all the binaries on it and
- a license to use the one of your choice. The vendor could optionally
- include floppies containing the Intel version but I would suspect that
- would fade over time just as shipping low-density floppies has.
-
- -Blake (subliminal message: CD-ROMs are a good thing)
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