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- From: guy@mais.hydro.qc.ca (Guy Harel)
- Subject: Re: What I heard from Microsoft about NT
- Message-ID: <guy.720988254@tdsb-s>
- Keywords: NT
- Sender: news@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Netnews Admin)
- Organization: Hydro-Quebec (DSB)
- References: <manne.719934125@Minsk> <1992Oct26.173915.8645@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:30:54 GMT
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- mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
-
- >>"NT will be released in March 93 and will be called Windows NT 3.1".
- >>To fool everyone who doesn't buy v1.0 of anything? Or have I missed
- >>the previous releases?
-
- >Well, we've seen indications of that previously on the net. I think
- >this is just plain silly. I assume this is some kind of marketting
- >move to make it look both more mature than it is and to keep it 'in
- >step' with its baby brother, Windows 3.1. Presumably they will roll
- >versions on both of them at once to keep them in step?
-
- Call that a fraud!
-
- Unless NT is based on a hack of BSD4, why should we allow MS to start
- at 3.1, while the rest of the industry has the guts to start at the
- beginning?
- --
- Guy Harel
-