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Re: NS 486 pricing vs. Win NT

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From: Bill Williams
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 08:33
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Windows NT does not provide the ability to use 255 character file names,
in fact most MS Windows NT users will use only 8 character file names
because Windows NT does not really expect you to use the OS2 ish extended
system AND BECAUSE Windows NT cannot save any files to floppy disk with
filnames greater than 8 characters.

Windows NT ABSOLUTELY does not currenlty allow multiple displays on one
Intel PC Clone, Though Macintoshes easily support 6 joined monitors, and I
have used multi monitor NeXT computers.

Windows NT cannot run in a turnkey startup mode. To run the first program
after supplying power the user MUST DEPRESS CNTL-ALT-DEL before logging
in. AND YOU MUST LOG IN EVEN IF NO PASSWORD IS SET FOR THE DEFAULT USER!

Windows NT does not use graphical objects to draw in a non pixelated
manner "such as Display PostScript or Apples new QuickDraw GX mammoth
project. It is a pixellated toy using wildly divergent aspect ratio devices.

Windows NT does not have an improved graphic driver interface for
accelerator board mfgs.

Windows NT does not prevent a user from inserting a bootable dos diskette
into the computer and using a disk editor on it to hack the systems disk
directly. Nor does it operate well when in full C2 security mode.

Windows NT is just a boring slight rehash of Windows 3.1 in many important
ways.


I just Looooove 8 character file names such as "IHATEMS.DOS" don't you?



Bill Williams

NeXT Step 486 is going to be insanely great!
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