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Ken Aanderud (aanderud@nando.net) wrote:

: >As a reseller of a technology-based operating system (which Windows 95
: >is not, unless someone out here can tell me what is new technology on
: Win 95 is the newest OS you can buy for the 486.  What's wrong if
: people want it?  It's far superior to Win 3.1 or WFWG.

Without the bugs, yes, but I receive the bug reports and if it is such
a great improvement over Windows, why aren't corporations getting in
line to make purchases of mass quantities? 

: Aweful choosey about your customers -- I guess the customer is not
: always right with you -- in fact if they have a Pentium with Win95 --
: then they are morons? ???  Uh...

I didn't say that Ken (about customers being morons), however I did
say I am choosey about my customers, just as you have your preference
about what operating system to run.
 
: Win95 is much more extensively tested than Win 3.0 was.  Come on now.
: You know that.  

Doesn't mean that equates to FEWER BUGS.
 
: >Most of the 1 million boxes of Windows 95 have gone to the home user...
: Sure, that's just the first week.

I know many MIS people in most companies in the Park who aren't even
THINKING of going to Windows 95. :-0
 
: What bugs are you talking about?  Works fine for tons of people I've
: worked with.  BTW, many of those home buyers are sys-admins at
: companies... they  will bring it into the work place faster than you
: can imagine...

Read above.

: Fine, but the Mac and NextStep are made by yuppie california companies
: (nothing wrong with that), with exclusive (i.e. monopoly) control of
: s/w and h/w for these 2 systems.  As a result, they occupy niche
: markets, like publishing.  The PC is the machine for everyone else.
: 100 million users may be wrong and stupid, but at least PC users will
: get much more mileage out of their 16MB 486 with Win95 than Dos or Win
: 3.0.   Of course there is OS/2 and Linux or NT as further choices.

Uh...Apple has know allowed for clone production (see http://www.powercc.
com, http://www.radius.com, http://www.daystar.com). NeXTSTEP doesn't
just run on its' proprietary hardware (see://www.next.com), it also runs
on Intel-based PCs, HP PA-RISC workstations and SUN SPARCS. Neither
is geared in a "niche" market, although NeXTSTEP is the BEST operating
system for application development and there's little, if any, debate
about the in the industry. 

: ps.  Obviously, since you ignore popular technology solutions like 
: Windblows 95, then you don't know the new features that Mac or Unix
: systems never have had:
: 1.  runs 32-bit Windows apps  (more selection than any other platform)

NeXTSTEP has been 32-bit since 88...and no company has the REAL ability
to compete with Microsoft.
 
: 2.  client s/w for LanManager, NT and Novell Netware access

NeXTSTEP has built-in Novell client software (obviously you need to
check out NeXTSTEP and its' feature set). :-)
 
: 3.  tested by almost 1/2 a million users before release (allowing
:      fine tuning to the user interface and other ease of use issues)

Microsoft has most of the GUI Windows 95 has from the Macintosh and a
great deal of the new fluff you see comes from NeXTSTEP.
 
: 4.  future game platform  (doom, doom II, doom III, ...)

In case you didn't know, all of ID's software is developed on NeXTSTEP
and not Windows...ahhhhh...the wonders of state-of-the technology -
STILL 3-5 years ahead of anyone else.


Dave