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  2. From: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
  4. Subject: Re: RE-Win/NT
  5. Message-ID: <sef3=su00WB5EwRYIK@andrew.cmu.edu>
  6. Date: 8 Sep 92 04:58:32 GMT
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  11. Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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  14.  
  15. Robert Agustin
  16. >-Full compatibility with MS-DOS and Windows applications on both Intel
  17. > and MIPS based systems
  18.  
  19. NT isn't supposed to support full DOS compatibility
  20.  
  21. one other note - no matter what MS says, their 'promise' to 'keep
  22. promise' ratio is ridiculously low, so it's really to early to predict
  23. any sort of details on what NT will do and what it will run on - just
  24. generally what it will be is visible
  25.