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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: NT to be launched at Comdex/Spring,...
- Message-ID: <hatton.727752497@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 01:28:17 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.190356.12915@cci632.cci.com> <1993Jan20.001343.15406@wam.umd.edu> <GHENNIGA.93Jan20231606@ampere.ampere> <1993Jan22.071800.24060@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- pjdm@chmeee.enet.dec.com (Peter Mayne) writes:
- >In article <GHENNIGA.93Jan20231606@ampere.ampere>, ghenniga@NMSU.Edu writes:
- >>However, just to put in a counterpoint to the
- >>$69 point, you can get a version of OS/2 comparable to your $69 dollar
- >>version of NT for FREE merely by using the command "ftp ftp-os2.NMSU.Edu"
- >>and a few "mget" commands!!
-
- >The $69 includes a C/C++ compiler and the first release version of Windows NT.
- >Comparable offer from IBM?
-
- Well, the C compiler in NT is *not* C 7.0, but a 32-bit only version;
- plus you don't get the whiz-bang all-new Visual C++ (C 8.0) which MS better
- hope is less problematic than C 7.0 (or worse still, C 6.0).
-
- You can get a beta of the IBM C++ compiler for $15. Doesn't get you the
- final release, but then neither does NT get you the final C++ compiler, so
- there, nyah. :-)
-
- >Complaints about requiring a CD drive may be riposted by complaints about
- >requiring the ability to ftp.
-
- Many BBS's have the new 2.1 beta; I haven't heard of one with any
- version of NT. 'Free' download from the BBS (most people connect locally).
- --
- Tom Hatton
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