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- From: thg@cam-orl.co.uk (Tim Glauert)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: NT Destined to Succeed??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.161707.417@cam-orl.co.uk>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 16:17:07 GMT
- References: <1993Jan3.205457.17495@wam.umd.edu> <1993Jan4.111435.685@actrix.gen.nz> <1993Jan5.094805.23389@cam-orl.co.uk> <1993Jan5.115147.1833@actrix.gen.nz>
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- In article <1993Jan5.115147.1833@actrix.gen.nz>, Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan5.094805.23389@cam-orl.co.uk> thg@cam-orl.co.uk (Tim Glauert) writes:
- |> Is there an NT newsgroup? It must be new, or my site doesn't carry it
- |> (we have 2,242 newsgroups at last count).
-
- comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 is what you need. It's not an obvious
- name, but I thought that it had been mentioned here before.
-
- |> > a half-hearted attempt to try NT (you didn't even install it yourself) and
- |> > then spreading tales on this group about how awful it is. OS/2 haters were
- |> > rightly criticised for doing this when OS/2 first came out.
- |>
- |> I would have liked to install it myself, but the CD and the CD-ROM drive
- |> were not available to me. So I had to take a pre-installed NT.
-
- This is not strictly true. If the disc is big enough your friend could have
- copied the NT installation files onto the hard disc and you could have
- installed from there. It is very straightforward, though slower than a CD-ROM
- install.
-
- |> Nothing half-hearted about it....I went to a lot of trouble to get it
- |> .....The tone of my post was more a measure of my disappointment at what
- |> I saw.
-
- I am sorry that you had a bad experience, but all you seem to have proved is
- that an installation that didn't work on you friend's machine doesn't work on
- yours.
-
- |> > There are plenty of bad things about NT. But constant crashes is not
- |> > one of them, on the vast majority of systems used by Beta testers.
- |>
- |> This is a contentious point. For every "NT is rock steady" posting, I read
- |> another that says it falls over every "X" minutes.
-
- But you just said that you don't read the NT group. Nobody is going to post to
- an *OS/2* group just to say "By the way, NT is solid on my machine". For one
- thing, they would get flamed to death for posting to the wrong group. Now
- that an OS/2 advocate has brought up the issue, I can say that NT has been
- very stable on both the clones I have installed it on. But, to be fair, I had
- no real problems with OS/2 either.
-
- Maybe I read different groups, but I have seen very few "NT crashes every X
- minutes" postings. Most of the complaints are from people who can't get the
- system going in the first place. Once it is installed properly it seems to be
- stable for most people. I had problems until I resolved a conflict of address
- spaces for different peripherals, but I consider that to be my fault, not
- NT's. (Actually, I consider it to be IBM's fault for infliciting the dreadful
- PC architecture on us :-)
-