🚀 go-pugleaf

chrisr@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Ringe) writes:
>peters@CS.ColoState.EDU (eric peters) writes:
>- but why is everyone so opposed to Microsoft?

>Ever hear of Hitler?  Well any company that wants to take over the entire 
>market, leaving no competition, should be shot and pi--ed on.

Agreed.  Mostly, anyway.

>Besides, the GUI is a pile of rubish, and NT isn't supposed to be 
>compatible with their own DOS/DOG operating system.

In fairness to Microsoft and Windows NT, I have to correct you here.  NT
has (read: HAS, this is no longer vaporware) a DOS client which interacts
with the Win32 Subsystem.  There is also an OS/2 Subsystem which also
communicates with the Win32 Subsystem, guaranteeing the ability to run
both DOS and OS/2 software, as well as being POSIX compliant.

>Best Bet, buy OS/2, wait for PINK, and take IBM's upgrade path to it.  
>Besides, OS/2 3.0 is supposed to be more like PINK anyways (runable on 
>different processors like 60xxx,80x86,RISC).

Windows NT is written almost entirely in C, which makes it rather portable.
In fact, as I understand it, you might want to look to see Windows NT 
running on a Mac in six months...

>CR.

Mike 
 
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