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From: Mark Boltz
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 20:24

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At the CeBIT '92 computer show in Hannover, Germany, I watched a demo of MS's
Windows NT with much interest.  It was a beta version of the program (any
testers out there?) at the time and had some big probs.  It appeared (on a
386DX-33) to run slower than a version I saw of OS/2 2.0 or Windows 3.1.
Plus, as I asked about the pre-emptive multi-tasking and how Win NT handled it,
the program crashed completely.  What happened was, the rep from MS was running
a DOS "dir" command in a dos window (lots of scrolling, it was a big hard
drive), a fractal generation in another (the PD prog 'FractInt'), and a ver
of Word for Windows in another window.  As he went to open a graphics prog.
the DOS window stopped scrolling in the middle, the fractal gen slowed down
tremendously, and the whole thing then died.

OOPS.

I can only hope that Microsoft is much further along now and has those bugs
worked out. :)

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boltz@vivaldi.psu.edu
"Entreri et parque de arbus"

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