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In article <XdJWjHBRSxAzEAXR@psp.co.uk>, Thomas Lee <tfl@psp.co.uk>
writes
>
>Turnpike was designed as a Windows 3.x program and for both 95 and NT,
>it relies on the fact that MS support older 16-bit code.  They've done a
>few things to make Turnpike at least not Win95/NT hostile.
>
>No - as I see it, Demon are aiming at the Windows market for Turnpike
>not 95 or NT.
>
What - you mean all those Net newbies specifically choosing Win 3.11
machines? Pull the other one.

While '95 hasn't had the take-up that MS planned, and while corporates
are still buying 3.11 while they haver about NT, I will bet that the
SOHO market is where Demon/Turnpike's new sales come from, and that it
is almost solidly '95.

And this is the exactly the market that Turnpike sell into - after all,
corporates use cc:Mail and similar 'big' products. 

Demon are hungry - you don't hire a new Marketing supremo from the
burger industry unless you are *serious* about a mass market push. New
users are going to want ease of use first second and third, and that
means '95.  

So while I might agree with you about NT, I can't think it true for '95. 

Mind you, you could certainly be excused for thinking that Turnpike
weren't too interested in the '95 market, with the 16-bit Connect and
the NTS stack kludges that we have to endure.

However, I think they were taken by surprise by how much it has
*mattered* that TP isn't 32-bit. But they won't want to be taken by
surprise by how easy it has got to be made, if TP is to be used by the
world and his wife, and not just us propeller-heads.

Watch this space then, for a 32-bit Turnpike, devoid of NTS, bang on for
'95 (or '97 as it will be by then), dripping with ease-of-use, and
incidentally covering NT as a by-blow.

Say, TP 4.0? 
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