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Article #14Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
From: Joseph Bissot
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 06:19
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 06:19
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> Like Linux, I presume? What the advocates of 95 and NT forget is that the > shit costs a lot of money, especially the NT. And you can't rule out the > RAM costs, no matter how carefully one shops around. Let's face the ugly > fact. Some people can't afford the requirements of NT. While the cost of > the RAM will surely continue to fall, it's apparent to me that M$ will > make even more bloated software demanding even more computing power > faster than it can become affordable. > > Cost is the number 1 reason I use Linux. Very true... but my time is worth far more than the cost of my hardware. People who have important things to do can't afford the extra time. Linux is a time intensive OS by comparison to NT. Never mind the fact that nobody will build a turn-key anything on Linux. Virtual Access : 3.11 build 89 (32-bit) WinNT build 1057
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.deltanet.com!usenet From: Joseph Bissot <bissot@deltanet.com> Newsgroups: alt.destroy.microsoft,alt.2600,alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,alt.fan.bill-gates,alt.wired,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sy Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 06:19:05 +0000 Organization: Power Computing Message-ID: <VA.0000002b.030fade0@main> References: <4gb34b$1ns@news.ais.net> Reply-To: bissot@deltanet.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sbd0117.deltanet.com X-Newsreader: Virtual Access by Ashmount Research Ltd, http://www.ashmount.com