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At 09:37 AM 12/17/99 , Chris Baker wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Dr. Hermansen <lahermansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: evrard_eng <evrard_eng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <rtobiass@xxxxxxx>
>Cc: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 6:22 PM
>Subject: Re: windows NT 2000
>
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> > I would be more excited for TS2Ki Release #4 than I would the Win2k.
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>I totally agree with that statement for those already running NT 4. For
>example ZDLabs reported that "in tests running the most popular business
>applications" Win2K "is comparable to the performance of Windows NT 4.0 on
>configurations with 64 MB and 128 MB of memory." So the question is for
>NT users, why bother pay $190 per machine upgrade to a legal monopoly for a
>new product that may not deliver much better performance than NT does?
Infoworld quotes the upgrade price from NT as $149.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pi/xml/99/11/02/991102piwinprice.xml
Just the USB support makes me want to pop for it.
Allan
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