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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.212750.26558@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <C0C8C9.5E9@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jan05.061510.21021@microsoft.com> <C0EKBM.IC9@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jan06.222856.24095@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:27:50 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In <1993Jan06.222856.24095@microsoft.com> blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett) writes:
-
- >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)
-
- Hey, Blake. Wanna buy me a Cd-ROM drive?
-
- [Vendors 'pushing' technology without regard to what the users are
- doing is a BAD thing, generally.]
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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