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- From: TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller)
- Subject: Re: What I heard from Microsoft about NT
- Message-ID: <BxBAn9.ApK@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:37:50 GMT
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- In article <guy.720988254@tdsb-s>,
- guy@mais.hydro.qc.ca (Guy Harel) writes:
- >
- >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
-
- Well, I'm not going to comment on whether or not this is a
- fraud by MS (but didn't DR DOS also skip a couple of numbers?) but
- according to my July documentation, Windows NT has been called 3.1
- the whole time (at least, since this documentation was printed).
- It's just sort of hard to see since the words 'Preliminary Release
- for Developers' are stamped over the Version number.
- I'm sure that it is meant to get people to switch over to NT
- without being scared of a new environment (although it seems to be a
- completely different environment). It'll probably even work for a
- lot of people who can run (and afford) it.
-