Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 11:28:20 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: Jamie Bowden <bowden@cs.odu.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>, Craig Shaver <craig@progroup.com> Subject: Re: Opinions? NT VS UNIX, NT SUCKS SOMETIMES Message-ID: <199607201828.LAA24177@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 20 Jul 96 14:08:29 -0400. <Pine.3.91.960720140400.642B-100000@zaxxon.cs.odu.edu>
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>On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote:
>> We were talking about server OS's. We were talking about Windows NT.
>> We were not discussing home gaming platforms. Windows 95 is not
>> Windows NT.
>But don't worry, it will be. If you even try to convince me M$ isn't
>going to get to one os to have to devel./support/market, I am gonna have
>to get rude. I installed a 4.0 NT beta realease (build 13 something or
>other). If M$ wasn't going to fade out win95, why require all win95
>approved binaries be NT compatible as well?
Well, of course they're going to move back to one OS as soon as
feasible. But that's probably at least two years out. Of course,
that schedule can be accelerated slightly now that RAM prices are
finally dropping again.
In the mean time, Windows 95 runs on an 8MB machine (they say 4MB,
but...), and NT doesn't come close. A business can easily buy a 64MB
or 128MB box to run some serious server software off of (or even a
32MB box for a desktop NT development/admin machine), but you won't be
seeing a majority of home PCs going home with 32MB of RAM probably
until the end of the year, at the earliest. Plus, Windows 95 has to
work with all that old legacy hardware out there, and NT doesn't worry
so much about that.
> NT is not a bad OS, it's not
>my prefered OS. It reminds me of NeXT in serious way : better hope your
>GUI doesn't ever get screwed, cause if it does, so do you.
Well, I've had XFree86 crash or hang my NetBSD machine more than once,
so I guess that goes for a lot of systems... ;-)
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