From: gordos@ucunix.san.uc.edu (John Gordos)
Subject: Re: DEC/Commodore Agreement
Summary: No more Win/NT lies please!
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 04:23:16 GMT

In article <kehlet.05od@kehlet.adsp.sub.org> kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org (Jesper Kehlet) writes:
>In article <1992Jul21.002259.2979@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan) writes:
>> In article <kehlet.05la@kehlet.adsp.sub.org> kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org
>> (Jesper Kehlet) writes:
>> 
>

[Bunch of lines regarding DEC VMS and ignoring Alpha Chips deleted]

[ This software has also lost a level of attribution for the included text.
  Hmm.  If you wrote the stuff in ">> >" then sorry. ]

>> >Windows/NT isn't that great an OS to put into any other machine than the
>> >Intel-based, so why bother?
>> 
>> Windows NT has largely been developed to be platform independent. From what I
>> understand however, its requirements make the Alpha more of a necessity than
>> anything.
>
>W/NT has been announced as a very efficient enhancement of Windows/386,
>that should support OS/2 specific applications and incorporate the best
>from the UNIX world.
>
>Now, as I see it, 386-enhancments and OS/2 compatibility most certainly
>requires an Intel-processor, still MS claiming it to be platform
>independent!  In their dreams, I say!!!
>
>

Sigh.  Folks, If you know not of what you speak, you should remain silent.


[  I hope to God, all of this has been in the press.  If not, you didn't hear
it from me. ]


NT's development environment runs, *just fine*, on our Mips box at work.
That's "Mips" the company, not MIPS.  It's an R3000 based system, not at
all "INTEL"ian in architecture, and is easily one of the fastest systems
I have ever personally used.  I wish we had one of the R4000's to compare
it to.

Support for 16bit Windows apps (That's the current stuff) is there, although
not yet finished.   We are also running on '486s and NT is the same there, too.


NT is so much better than Windows, it's scarey.  In fact, I will not miss
my Amiga at all once NT is finished and running.  Sorry to be the bearer of
bad news, but I've been an Amigan for too long to not want it to succeed 
wildly.  Unfortunately, this juggernaught called Microsoft can throw enough
money at a project (even if it's IBM's money ;-) ) to make the general public
believe it's what they want, even if it's not.  Windows in all it's current and
previous incarnations prove that.

NT, however, is different.   Bill has hired good people, and guess what --  
there's no installed base!   You can fix the things that are broke!  


Well, enough.   It's late.  But I gotta tell you two things:

	1)  NT is real.  
	2)  NT is the future of desktop computing, regardless of the hardware
		platform used.


John

>
>
>> Mark
>
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>
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>     "Yet another emotional suicide, overdosed on sentiment and pride"


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