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- From: jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: How's this for a solution
- References: <66299@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Message-ID: <jbono.02qz@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 00:06:43 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
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- In article <66299@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt2038a@prism.gatech.EDU (gt2038a gt2038a
- BROWNING,CHRIS SHERMAN) writes:
- >Here's some food for thought
- >
- >Why doesn't C= make a port of windows NT for the amiga. I'm not say that
- >we should use NT as a replacement of AmigaDOS, rather that they make an
- >"emulator" that understands Windows NT commands and can make it work on
- >the amiga. Supposedly, NT is portable to many platforms and that programs
- >made to run on NT don't need to know about the hardware it is running on.
- >Nt programs just need to know Windows NT, and the windows NT program takes
- >care of talking to the OS/hardware. This way, programs written for NT
- >would work on the Amiga with little or no conversion problems. This assumes
- >ofcourse that NT catches on.
- >
- >
- >--
- >ChRiS BrOwNiNg Give me an Georgia Tech Research Institute
- >Computer Engineering AMIGA or give "Neural Networks 'R Us"
- >gt2038a@prism.gatech.edu me NOTHING ESML /EIB
-
- What advantages would it offer an Amiga owner to load NT? MS won't be able to
- deliver a large base of WinNT applications, the hardware requirements for NT
- are *enormous*(OS/2:AmigaDOS::WinNT:OS/2 for anybody who remembers the SATs),
- and there is very little that WinNT can do that AmigaDOS can't. Porting WinNT
- will be about as successful as the porting of Unix to the Amy: very expensive,
- with very little added value.
-
- John
-