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- From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
- Subject: Re: I've seen NT......and I'll take OS/2 2.0 thanks!
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.204356.38021@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:43:56 GMT
- Reply-To: margoli@watson.ibm.com
- Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
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- In <1992Aug16.063037.3621@microsoft.com> petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug14.202253.33580@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com writes
- > >In <SXMRP.15.0@orca.alaska.edu> SXMRP@orca.alaska.edu (Michael R. Platzke) wr
- > >>
- > >> NT has, I'm told, Win-32 and limited Win-16 support, today (my CD-ROM drive
- > >> has not come in so I have not had the chance to extensively test it). In
- > >> addtion, it has a limited version of LANMAN and TCP/IP support,
- > >> *BUILT IN to the OS.
- > >
- > >And OS/2 has Lan Server and TCP/IP available as add-ons. Those who want them
- > >can buy them. The millions of stand-alone machines that have no use for them
- > >need not pay for them.
- >
- > Oh, so what you're saying is that these things should be optional modules.
-
- I believe that a previous reference was talking about stuff that NT had and
- OS/2 didn't, and I was mainly pointing out that both LAN Server and TCP/IP
- are available today. A secondary point is that people who have no use for
- it shouldn't have to pay for it.
-
- > That may be okay (hey, look, and IBM person and a MS person agreeing).
- > However, others on this group seem to think that it is absolutely necessary
- > that NT ship with these things, and the kitchen sink as well.
-
- There are some on this group that don't think it necessary that NT ship
- at all... :-)
-
- > You may want to tell the folks upstairs this,
-
- What folks upstairs?
-
- > (or maybe they were just trying to flame NT and MS)
-
- Nah - something like that would never take place here. :-)
-
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
-