From: cmclark@dri.com (Chip Clark)
Subject: Re: Paid Microsoft employees
Reply-To: cmclark@novell.com
Organization: Desktop Systems Group/Novell, Monterey CA/USA
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 18:26:44 GMT


How can you expect someone to work for a company and not feel some partiality
for their products?  I work for Novell and love their products.  

I also have Windows 3.1 on my machine as well as OS/2 - 
Trying to be honest in the comparisons:

Windows 3.1 is nice and fast but has some real problem when attached to a 
network and trying to print from DOS application.  DR DOS 6.0 makes it run 
a little faster than MS DOS 5.0 on a stand alone system - but MS DOS seems to 
have an edge when pulling Windows from a network.

OS/2 is nice, but slow on lower memory machines (I had 4mb now have 8).  It
can be enhanced by removing the attributes on the system files and disk 
optimizing them, but still a memory intensive program.  Looking to the future
has to be handed to OS/2 and the ability to create virtual disk images is
great for those people who have applications who require a specific DOS ver.

Multiuser DOS 5.1 - (old Digital Research Product) - Nice multitasking 
environment with some tru advantages over Windows - especially in regards to 
printing.  - but, like OS/2, is memory hungry and will slow down if not fed
the proper amount.  Nice part about it is it allows other people to attach to 
system, for the price of a serial terminal (as low as $60).

Netware 3.11 - Great stuff for multiple people, but not really a multitasking 
environment.  Multiuser 5.1 can have multiple sessions on netware to provide
the Multitasking feel, but then again, so can Windows and OS/2 - Pretty 
pricy as well

DR DOS 6.0 - Lots of features, with a Task switcher.  Excellent memory 
management, and other added extras, but public responce still wants a standard.
Now, bundled with NetwareLite for $79, a price hard to pass up.

MS DOS 5.0 - Microsoft has dominated this market and still does.  Not because
it has a better product, but because of the press it can generate.  This is not
a fault, nor am i trying to slight Microsoft.  Kudos for maintaining the #1
spot.

Unix - If only the general populas could grasp the power of a real OS.  But 
it's time will come.  DOS is on the way out and in 5 years Unix may very well
be the OS of choice.  

What do I run?  - I run them all and use them for different purposes.  
Multiuser DOS 5.1 is my primary, because of the kind of work I'm in a need to 
have rapid access to several DOS prompts, and am not really a graphics type
guy (still like the prompt).  AT home - DR DOS 6.0 because of price comparison
I couldn't afford all the various OS so I had to opt for the most features
for my budget (besides, I'm still on a @*^ [that's 286 in foul language] and
the other OS's just are too much for my poor little beast.

Am interested in whether this might be construed as a "Paid Novell Employee"
who really likes working where I'm at and perfers the products we support, 
but also tries to be honest and fair.
(not something commonly found in marketing departments)

Chip - 
cmclark@novell.com
Novell Desktop System Group
Technical Support
These are my opinons and only my opinions, unless you share them as well, 
which would make them our opinions, but I am not of the opinion that I can 
express your opinion as my opinion without your prior expression of said
opinion, and then my reutterance of that opinion would, in my opinion, be 
foolish unless I were expressing agreement to your opinion, and then it 
wouldn't be my opinion but your opinion to which I only agree.

"And happy always was it for that son
Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?" - King Henry VI -Shakespeare

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