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"William L. Whipple [MVP NT, TCP/IP]" <Consulting@WLW.Com> wrote:
Hello William.....gosh, you sure are sarcastic!  :-)

But...really, your sarcastic remarks have no relevance to my posting.


>- It doesn't support Core memory.  Core is essential if you want to survive
>power outages without a UPS!

Core memory is way too slow!  However, the NT OS might shine with
slower memory.

>- It requires more than 4K for the OS!  Heck, we used to run 500 dial-in
>users doing their whole businesses on a 4K system, using 110 baud (not K
>Baud) acoustic modems!

NT could not support 500 users at 110 baud.  It would reach saturation
long before the 500th user logged in.   This is a documented fact.

>- It has no native support for current-loop teletypes. How will we ever
>manage if we don't like those new-fangled video-terminal thingies?  Where's
>your paper backup gonna come from?

Hmm...no retort here.  Looks like your pretty old and stuck back in
the glory days of early electronics.

>- It has no native support for 9-track reel-to-reel self-loading tape
>drives.  How can it possibly read all the millions of tapes written on the
>good old IBM 360 and 370?  Heck, we used those to put Gemini in orbit!

And that was a pretty remarkable feat for those days now wasn't it!

>- It has no native support for IBM card readers and sorters.  Whatever will
>we do with all the US Census data collected in the 1950's and 1960's?

Burn them?

>- It has no native support for paper-tape readers and punches.  How can it
>make a backup that'll survive the EMP if the atom bombs start dropping?

Well, what's the sense of going any further with you.  Obviously, you
fail to realize that NT is a step back.   After all, NT is an acronym
that means Neanderthal Technology.

>With your attitude we may as well go back to using Hollerith Cards and
>Knitting Needles to sort database records...

With my attitude??   Huh?  Hello!!  Wake up!!  I'm the one who is
shouting about the Nonsense Technology that makes NT!   Do you know
how many people I bail out of their so-called 'NT solutions'.  Many
companies are moving back to Novell or Unix when they realize (the
hard way) that NT is far more costly!   This is also well documented.
NT does have it's place but it's also not ready for prime time.   

>...and if you don't know what that means, go back to school and study your
>history.  You'll find out progress has been happening for, oh... years.

So....you are claiming that NT is progress over Novell??   Oh my oh
my, have you ever been brainwashed!   

Please, enlighten me.   Please tell me where I've gone wrong.  

If you can prove to everyone that NT is 'overall' more superior than
Novell, I'll apologize for my blasphemy against NT and never peep
another word on this topic.  

>Just my too sense...

You mean 'two' :-)


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