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- From: timbol@netcom.com (Mike Timbol)
- Subject: Re: SMALL Excerpt from "Windows Sources"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.222956.22461@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <47798@ogicse.ogi.edu> <1992Dec30.031820.21424@netcom.com> <1992Dec30.104851.13621@rtf.bt.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:29:56 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Dec30.104851.13621@rtf.bt.co.uk> traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub) writes:
- >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).
-
- Anyone can compare anything to anything. It may not mean much, but I didn't
- make the comparison to begin with, Petzold did. I can also say that
- OS/2 3.0 will be better than Windows 3.1 -- that doesn't mean I'm biased
- in favor of OS/2, does it?
-
- >Michael Traub
-
- - Mike
-