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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Speaking of Window NT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.095911.13977@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 09:59:11 GMT
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
- References: <sqo1PB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> <17mnt5INNdki@agate.berkeley.edu> <4118@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Keywords: Microsoft, Window_NT, SLOW
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- In article <4118@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
- >
- > To quote Microsoft: "that's only because we have a lot of
- > debuggng code in there. The final production version will be
- > at least twice as fast." (source: a speaker at the Win developers
- > conference at the Moscone center a while back). Now it's up to
- > every one of us to either believe that or not. The way I figure
- > it is, that either the above statement is true; or Microsoft
- > made _a_big_mistake_ putting too much clock-cycle hungry security
- > and intelligence into NT; making it an OS that only a 586/686
- > PC can devour (or the Alpha, which is totally ridicolous for
- > a porting target; but which _may_ and I stress _MAY_ be a way
- > out of the DOS-nightmare).
-
- The way out of the DOS nightmare has been selling pretty well since the end of
- March.......1,200,000 copies and rising.
-
- OS/2!
-
- Why wait for NT? OS/2 does the job today. If you want a home LAN and
- high-level security........well, with OS/2 you can buy them - today -
- separately.
-
- Steve
- --
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- **** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! **** | Give yourself a vote that *counts*!
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