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In article <5h/Vx0JfFO0T089yn@oslonett.no> Rune Moberg,
mobergru@oslonett.no writes:
>All Microsoft's roads (specially including Win95) leads to NT.
>If DOS/Windows and Win95 customers agree with that, then NT's market share
>will grow tremendously the next year (this year it get's 95's UI, so many
>users will be compelled to upgrade). That is one good reason for the
>attention it gets in the press. Also it's a nice OS, and IMO probably
>the best for a lot of people.
>

Only as long as RAM prices continue to drop. RAM for $20-25/MB will do
more to spread NT than the Win95 Shell Update ever will. The fact is that
NT needs 32MB to run optimally. Win95, MacOS PPC, and OS/2 only need half
that. Right now, 32MB adds close to $1000 to the price of a PC. I'm
currently spec'ing 50 new Pentium desktops and servers to run NT. NT is
adding close to $50,000 to the total purchase price compared to going
with Win95 or Win3.x and Netware. When all is said and done, the
additional RAM is over 20% of the total price of the hardware and
software.

WT