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In article <4118@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
>
> To quote Microsoft: "that's only because we have a lot of
> debuggng code in there.  The final production version will be
> at least twice as fast." (source: a speaker at the Win developers
> conference at the Moscone center a while back).  Now it's up to
> every one of us to either believe that or not.  The way I figure
> it is,  that either the above statement is true;  or Microsoft
> made _a_big_mistake_ putting too much clock-cycle hungry security
> and intelligence into NT;  making it an OS that only a 586/686
> PC can devour (or the Alpha,  which is totally ridicolous for
> a porting target;  but which _may_ and I stress _MAY_ be a way
> out of the DOS-nightmare).

The way out of the DOS nightmare has been selling pretty well since the end of
March.......1,200,000 copies and rising.
 
OS/2!
 
Why wait for NT? OS/2 does the job today. If you want a home LAN and
high-level security........well, with OS/2 you can buy them - today -
separately. 

Steve
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