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Article #2044Re: *** HUGE NEWS ABOUT WINDOWS 95 ***
From: aki... Aaron Kimoto
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:00
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In a previous article, dav...@interlog.com (Dave Glue) says: >syse...@carbon.concom.com (Aaron Bilger) wrote: > > > >>1. You can operate OS/2 on 4 megs. You _cannot_ operate Win NT on this. > >While we're speaking of lies... > >OS/2 will LOAD in 4 megs. You cannot do anything productive with it >in that configuration. You'll have a hard time trying to convince >someone who's actually used the product in 4 of that. > >>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. > > >>>NT, with >>>'95's shell, it's out in beta, will kick OS/2's butt. Period. > >>Again, a simple lie. There is no Cairo beta. Were there such a beta program, >>I'm certain one of the pro-Microsoft posters would be happy to direct us >>to information on joining it. > >You're right, there is no Cairo beta. However, the description >provided above is not of Cairo, it is NT 4.0 with the 95 interface. >And it most certainly is in beta, has been for some time, and likely >will be released _very_ early in '96. > I beleive what you are talking about is named Daytona. (And no, I'm not pro-Microsoft, just an innocent bystander.)
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From: aki...@cln.etc.bc.ca (Aaron Kimoto) Subject: Re: *** HUGE NEWS ABOUT WINDOWS 95 *** Date: 1995/07/10 Message-ID: <1995Jul10.152848.17564@news.etc.bc.ca> X-Deja-AN: 105992550 sender: ne...@news.etc.bc.ca (System Administration) x-nntp-posting-host: cln.etc.bc.ca references: <3tq6bb$4fd@steel.interlog.com> <vendettaDApDvy.L0C@netcom.com> <3squjd$fn4@news.acns.nwu.edu> <DBC1yq.Kx0@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <kspeicht.281.00179977@fox.nstn.ns.ca> <3tp4ls$ag9@carbon.concom.com> organization: The Education Technology Centre of British Columbia. (Canada) reply-to: aki...@cln.etc.bc.ca (Aaron Kimoto) newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action originator: akimoto@cln MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit