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Re: NT: please define vapor.

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From: Jeff Bone
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:14
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jhenshaw@microsoft.com (Jeff Henshaw) writes:

>| Well, depends on what functionality you mean.  If it looks like UNIX,
>| it's UNIX --- if not, its not.  It's the total package I'm interested
>| in, personally.  As for market share...

Kill it before it spreads!  How did this snippet from my posting
get over here?  I thought this argument was confined to c.s.n.advocacy?


>First of all, you *really* need to define what "vapor" is if you're
>going to reference products in relation to it.  If you mean that
>"vapor" is a product that has been announced, but is not yet
>being distributed to the general public in a release form, then
>yes (listen to the Microsoft employee say this :-), NT is vapor.

That about sums up vapor as far as I'm concerned.  This product,
which has no end users at all, has somehow created what basically
amounts to market hysteria.  Sanity check!  As of today, 9/10/92,
NT has 0, that's *0* end users.  I'd call that vapor.


Standard dissing, standard disclaimers. ;)


jb



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