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- From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
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- Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
- Message-ID: <64910@cup.portal.com>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 17:14:45 GMT
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- >I'm curious, what do you mean, "Cut from the same cloth..."
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- [...]
-
- Two things:
-
- 1) NT will be running Windows applications (3.x type) *not* as
- native NT apps, but will do a similar "windows within NT" trick
- used by OS/2. That means there will be the same type of compatibility
- problems with Windows 3.1 executables running under NT as currently
- exist under OS/2
-
- 2) its a *WHOLE NEW OS*. There will be the same type of bugs in
- NT (and perhaps worse, since OS/2 has gone through several revisions)
- as now exist in OS/2
-
- Finally, it appears to me that the "Windows" in "Windows NT" is
- purely a marketing move; the only thing Windows NT has in common
- with Windows 3.1 is they both run on Intel chips and both are made
- by Microsoft.
-
- TomK@cup.portal.com
- Tom Krotchko
-