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Article #2008Re: *** HUGE NEWS ABOUT WINDOWS 95 ***
From: dav... Dave Glue
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:00
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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.
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From: dav...@interlog.com (Dave Glue) Subject: Re: *** HUGE NEWS ABOUT WINDOWS 95 *** Date: 1995/07/10 Message-ID: <3tq6bb$4fd@steel.interlog.com> X-Deja-AN: 105902512 references: <vendettaDApDvy.L0C@netcom.com> <3squjd$fn4@news.acns.nwu.edu> <DBC1yq.Kx0@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <kspeicht.281.00179977@fox.nstn.ns.ca> <3tp4ls$ag9@carbon.concom.com> organization: InterLog Internet Services newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit