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Willie Yeo <yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au> wrote in article
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	And yes, I know COMMAND.COM and I *HATE* it. GUI is great to 
> navigate CLIs. I know you want to show that M$ is great, but Win 95 just 
> isn't. It's a crappy OS with solid marketing strategy that corners the 
> market. I wave my white flag to Win NT, but if you don't believe me, just

> ask the M$ engineers what Windows 95 really is. It's an IMPROVED Win 3.11

> on MS-DOS shell with 32-bit extensions.
> 
> 	I have a Windows NT workstation at work, a PowerMac with DOS 
> Compatibility (Windows 95) at home, a SunSparc Station at home, and I 
> *HATE* Windows 95. Windows NT is far superior, but my MacOS 8 is better 
> then Win NT IMHO, but then again, NT has its advantages over MacOS.

If I remember the hype & speculation before Win95, MS created Win95 as a
reudced NT in order to transition users from Win3.x &WG to NT by planting
the seeds to make users start thinking of NT. Frankly, I'm surprised that
Win98 was even developed in the first place... I guess that Win95 offered
too much on it's own merits or MS found that not everyone can handle the
more complicated NT.

From a programming standpoint, Win95 doesn't sit on top of DOS. I think
that MS would drop DOS if they could but the large number of games,
shareware, etc. makes such a thing hard to do without pissing a bunch of
people off.

Just out of curiosity, why aren't you running NT on your powerbook? Seems
like a logical thing to do if Win95 upsets you so, especially since you use
NT at work.

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