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- From: jbone@splat.dell.com (Jeff Bone)
- Subject: Re: NT: please define vapor.
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- References: <1992Sep09.164238.2487@microsoft.com> <jbone.716138069@splat> <dillon.0nkv@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 01:15:51 GMT
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- dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
- >
- >> (...in response to my assertion that NT has no end-users and no
- >> shipping applications, therefore it's vapor...)
- >
- > NT isn't vapor, it's silly to argue that it is. It isn't going to be
- > much better then 3.1 though from the users standpoint.
- >
-
- Hello? Anybody in there? I didn't say it didn't exist at all, I
- said that it was, from a market standpoint, vapor --- nobody's
- running their day-to-day business with it, the thing isn't even
- shipping yet (the developer's version doesn't count, again, it's
- just a step on the road from concept to *product*.)
-
- I don't think that argument is refutable --- it's merely one
- definition. If you think product == something that's announced,
- or exists in a limited form, or exists but is unreleased, or
- is prototyped, try sending a PO for a volume order for NT to
- Microsoft, and ask for a guaranteed ship date.
-
- If anybody thinks this isn't a *very* important point, consider:
- the press made similar hoo-ha about OS/2 a couple of years back,
- and it failed spectacularly to make any significant impact in the
- market whatsoever. Dose of reality time --- can it be that the
- PC industry is so starved for something real in the OS area, yet
- so UNIXphobic, that they're willing to believe anything at this
- point?
-
-
- Headlines: "Microsoft *creates* market reality. Film at 11."
-
-
- Std. disclaimers.
-
-
- jb
-
-
-
-
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- NT... Just say N0T. Skate UN*X! Standard disclaimer.
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