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- From: jbone@splat.dell.com (Jeff Bone)
- Subject: Re: NT: please define vapor.
- Message-ID: <jbone.716138069@splat>
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- References: <1992Sep09.164238.2487@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:14:29 GMT
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- jhenshaw@microsoft.com (Jeff Henshaw) writes:
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- >| Well, depends on what functionality you mean. If it looks like UNIX,
- >| it's UNIX --- if not, its not. It's the total package I'm interested
- >| in, personally. As for market share...
-
- Kill it before it spreads! How did this snippet from my posting
- get over here? I thought this argument was confined to c.s.n.advocacy?
-
-
- >First of all, you *really* need to define what "vapor" is if you're
- >going to reference products in relation to it. If you mean that
- >"vapor" is a product that has been announced, but is not yet
- >being distributed to the general public in a release form, then
- >yes (listen to the Microsoft employee say this :-), NT is vapor.
-
- That about sums up vapor as far as I'm concerned. This product,
- which has no end users at all, has somehow created what basically
- amounts to market hysteria. Sanity check! As of today, 9/10/92,
- NT has 0, that's *0* end users. I'd call that vapor.
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- Standard dissing, standard disclaimers. ;)
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- jb
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- NT... Just say N0T. (Viva UN*X!)
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