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dav...@interlog.com (Dave Glue) writes:

>syse...@carbon.concom.com (Aaron Bilger) wrote:

>>2. You can operate OS/2 pleasantly for several applications on 8 megs.

>"Pleasantly" made by an exaggeration.  However, you are correct that
>NT will need 16 megs to run "pleasantly" as well.

   Actually, NT runs rather nice with 16 megs. Although you'd need 24 megs
to do programming. It's not fast but it's certainly not doggy with 16 megs.

>You're right, there is no Cairo beta.
   
   Nope, they haven't even finished coding yet. I believe they hope to have
an alpha version by early '96(or even end of this year) and hopefully ship
by '97

>  However, the description
>provided above is not of Cairo, it is NT 4.0 with the 95 interface.

   It won't be 4.0. I think 4.0 will be cairo. They are testing the interface
and it will go on top of 3.51. I'm guessing it will be called 3.6. Should
ship late 95 or early '96.

>And it most certainly is in beta, has been for some time, and likely
>will be released _very_ early in '96.

   Actually, it's still designated as alpha(last time I checked at least), and
it is pretty buggy. It could be called early beta since Microsoft had been
testing it internally for a while now.

   BTW how did this discussion come up in the comp.*.games.* group?

P.J. Kim