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- From: jja@wsl.ie (John J. Allen)
- Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.094223.17876@wsl.ie>
- Organization: Project Papyrus, AIRAID, Dublin, Ireland
- References: <1992Aug29.132709.5155@hellgate.utah.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 09:42:23 GMT
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- brian%jaguar.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
- : Strange... OS/2 was extremely buggy and unstable in it's early incarnations
- : (1.2 was awful!, and I'm told earlier versions were worse).
- : I've worked with NT enough already to know it's more stable that 1.2
- : was... I guess a miracle has occured! Shall we take this a sign that
- : NT has been blessed? :-)
-
- NT has been blessed by Dave Cutler and his merry band of absolutely brilliant
- engineers, what have had Microsoft (bg) strangle a beautiful OS(/2) by
- clampin the MS-Windows User Interface API onto it.
-
- And NT it is more stable than OS/2 1.[0-2] because Microsoft used some real
- quality engineers on it instead of the old-time hackers.
-
- Oh I feel better with that off my chest.
-