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In article <hubbach-2109971703000001@pdq.coe.montana.edu>,
Jeff Hubbach <hubbach@esus.cs.montana.edu> wrote:
>In article <342447c5.25322843@news.indra.com>, tjv@no.spam.com (Tom Vilot)
>wrote:
>> >   Apple is original, Windoze is just a cheap rip-off.  
>
>I agree, Microsoft did borrow some things from the Mac OS for Windows, but
>it goes both ways. Look at OS 8's contextural menus.

     The reality is software designers must incorporate features their
users demand.  If a user walks by a machine and says, "Ooh, that's cool,"
and calls up a software company and says, "I want that in the next
version," what are they supposed to do?  Say, "We want to be original, so
instead of a mouse we thought we'd use foot pedals."

>> Windows 3.1 was. Windows 95 is still something of a rip-off, but adds
>> new functionality and UI design.
>> 
>> NT is in no way, shape or form a rip-off of the Macintosh. The
>> Macintosh still does not have PMT/PM/SMP.
>
>Rhapsody will fix all of this.

     And slice bread, too.
 
 
>> >Windoze can take up 200 mb on your hard disk 
>> 
>> NT takes about 170. 95 takes maybe 100 to 120.
>
>NT also takes about 64 megs of RAM (true, you can run it on 32, but I wouldn't)

     NT runs fine on 32 megs.  (Interestingly enough, one of the Mac rumor
sites recently made the claim Rhapsody was going to need 64 Mb to run
"well.")  NT will run reasonably well on 24.  Obviously if you're trying
to manipulate large graphics or something else memory intensive 32 isn't
going to be enough, but that's true of any OS.
-- 
David Veal    veal@utkux.utk.edu   http://www.ce.utk.edu/veal
"Any smoothly functioning technology will be
indistinguishable from a rigged demo."  Isaac Asimov