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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!osr
  2. From: elliston@osf.org (David Elliston)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.research
  4. Subject: Re: WINDOWS/NT
  5. Date: 10 Sep 1992 20:38:59 GMT
  6. Organization: Open Software Foundation
  7. Lines: 25
  8. Approved: comp-os-research@ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
  9. Message-ID: <18obp3INNquh@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
  10. References: <18iq26INNe58@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <18lc72INN47e@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <18o3ueINNorf@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
  12. Originator: osr@ftp
  13.  
  14. In article <18o3ueINNorf@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> rminnich@super.super.org (Ronald G M
  15. innich) writes:
  16. > In article <18lc72INN47e@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> khaled@zeus.csc.ncsu.edu (Khaled E
  17. l-Sayed) writes:
  18. > > [regarding windows/nt]
  19. > >I know that it would be a single-user system, which is something that I
  20. > >personally don't like about it.
  21. >
  22. > what would lead you to believe that windows/nt is a single user system?
  23. > are you thinking of windows 3.1? be advised that nt is a different barrel
  24. > of monkeys.
  25. > ron
  26.  
  27. Microsoft has made it clear that NT will be a single-user system.  After all,
  28. their motto is ``A computer on every desk.''  NT is not as far from 3.1 as
  29. they'd like to say.
  30.  
  31. David
  32.  
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  36. Open Software Foundation       Email:     elliston@osf.org
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