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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT vs OS/2: Does NT worth the wait?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.212250.26304@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <79270@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:22:50 GMT
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- In <79270@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7692b@prism.gatech.EDU (Constantinos Malamas) writes:
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-
- > I realize that this post may very well start a flame war or, worse
- >yet a thread that will have little or anything to do with the answer to this
- >question but, hey! this is Usenet!.... So here it goes: I got a 486DX33 and I
- >want an OS that makes some real use of the monster under the hood and has
- >nothing to do with a command line :)).... I really like OS/2 as a concept and
- >'feel' and I prefer Windows's look, but before I go out and spend around $300
- >in mem expansion (I got a sorry 4MB) and OS/2, I need some input on this
- >so-talked-about Win NT... How much more of an OS is NT compared to 3.1 and OS2?
- >Does it multitasking feel like 3.1 or OS2? How well does it perform? Most
- >importantly, what are its hardware requirements? (one of the reasons I am
- >having cold feet about OS2 is the magnificent 15MB for minimum installation NOT
- >counting the swap files...) When is NT expected approx? So many OSs, just one
- >PC.... Thanx everybody in advance....
-
- I haven't used it, but I've talked to enough people who have to form
- an opinion. NT ought to feel like OS/2 rather than Windows, insofar
- as multitasking goes. The interface is supposed to be identical to
- Windows 3.1 -- whether this is a lose or a win depends on your opinion
- of that interface paradigm. The hardware requirements for NT can be
- expected to be LARGER than for OS/2 -- current marketing information
- says a minium of 8 MB for NT (vice 4 MB for OS/2). I would expect NT
- to need about 2-4MB more memory than OS/2 in order to get acceptable
- performance (this is currently around 6-8 MB for OS/2). It also will
- not run some DOS programs and older Windows programs that OS/2 will
- run.
-
- As for when it will be here, your guess is probably as good as anyone
- else's. I don't really expect it to start shipping before mid-year,
- and a lot of people are saying 3 months later than that. MS, of
- course, is avoiding the issue -- the last 'official' statement I heard
- was saying late 1Q93, but if the recent Beta is as buggy as some
- people say it is, I don't consider that a realistic date.
-
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