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Re: Speaking of Window NT

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From: scott eric cantor
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:17
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In article <17mnt5INNdki@agate.berkeley.edu> chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Aug27.113905.19790@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>
>>MAC users will love that! I don't know a single MAC user who would give up
>>their GUI for the Win3.x program manager.......

	And I don't know too many Windows users who would give up the
Windows interface for the Mac GUI either.  Note that the interface and
Program Manager are two different things.  Program Manager sucks, but I
use other shells.

>
>Assuming that Window NT will sport the same interface as Window 3.1, I'm not
>thrilled (been a both Mac and PC user)

	I have to agree with this.  Since NT is basically a Windows
successor, I'd like to see a more object oriented environment.  WPS is OK,
but it's still a long ways from object oriented.


>According to a friend who's running Window NT beta, it is slow as hell...
>(he equated it to Window 3.1 running on 286 with 1MB of RAM) And mind you,
>he's running Window NT on a 486DX-50 with 32 MB RAM and 1.2 GIG HD...

	I don't know what the heck your friend's doing, but I can practically
guarantee you it's something wrong.  We have NT running on a Dell 483/33 with
16 megs of RAM, and it's performance is certainly acceptable.  It took about
20+ demo programs running at the same time before we noticed an appreciable
CPU slowdown.  If you want slow, try OS/2 on a 4 meg 386.

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