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- From: manne@Minsk.docs.uu.se (Magnus L|vkvist)
- Subject: Re: Speaking of Window NT
- Message-ID: <manne.715288242@Minsk>
- Keywords: Microsoft, Window_NT, SLOW
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- Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden
- References: <1992Aug26.003525.8542@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Aug27.113905.19790@actrix.gen.nz> <17mnt5INNdki@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Aug31.161704.17154@cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:10:42 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- cantor@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu (scott eric cantor) writes:
-
- >In article <17mnt5INNdki@agate.berkeley.edu> chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU writes:
- >>In article <1992Aug27.113905.19790@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >>
- >>>MAC users will love that! I don't know a single MAC user who would give up
- >>>their GUI for the Win3.x program manager.......
-
- > And I don't know too many Windows users who would give up the
- >Windows interface for the Mac GUI either. Note that the interface and
- >Program Manager are two different things. Program Manager sucks, but I
- >use other shells.
-
- >>
- >>Assuming that Window NT will sport the same interface as Window 3.1, I'm not
- >>thrilled (been a both Mac and PC user)
-
- > I have to agree with this. Since NT is basically a Windows
- >successor, I'd like to see a more object oriented environment. WPS is OK,
- >but it's still a long ways from object oriented.
-
- A long way? OK, there is a lot of discussion about what the term object
- oriented means but most people wouldn't say that the wonderful WPS is far
- from object oriented.
-
- >>According to a friend who's running Window NT beta, it is slow as hell...
- >>(he equated it to Window 3.1 running on 286 with 1MB of RAM) And mind you,
- >>he's running Window NT on a 486DX-50 with 32 MB RAM and 1.2 GIG HD...
-
- > I don't know what the heck your friend's doing, but I can practically
- >guarantee you it's something wrong. We have NT running on a Dell 483/33 with
- >16 megs of RAM, and it's performance is certainly acceptable. It took about
- >20+ demo programs running at the same time before we noticed an appreciable
- >CPU slowdown. If you want slow, try OS/2 on a 4 meg 386.
-
- And if you want REALLY slow try the NT alpha (there is no beta yet) on a 4
- meg 386.
-
- > _______________________________________________________
- > | |
- > | Shine on......... |
- > | Scott <Crazy Diamond> Cantor |
- > | |
- > | [<<<<<< cantor@cis.ohio-state.edu >>>>>>] |
- > |_______________________________________________________|
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