From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) Subject: Re: Great marketing (Was Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?) Date: 28 Sep 1992 19:52:21 GMT
In article <1a7gv0INNc35@almaak.usc.edu> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
:The leader of the Windows NT project is a guy named Dave Cutler
:who worked for DEC before this job. He was asked how doing this
:project was different from his earlier work. He said ``it's the
:same OS, but I've never seen such marketing''.
:
:Really: it's sickening to see the way the peasants are blindly
:believing that Windows NT is the ``OS of the future''. This when
:it's as certain as plain daylight that Microsoft will never have
:a market share as large as what it had in 1987, ever again, even
:if Windows NT can ship before end-1993 and it can be free of bugs
:and it can be worth using for anyone. Remember these guys tried writing
:DOS, Windows, OS/2.
Unfortunately I fear you may be wrong. Note the "Dec" above. Windows NT
is being targeted at the new Dec ultra-fast 64bit Risc line, which
Microsoft will use as a stepping stone into the real computer
market. Rumour has it that the Dec port of NT is actually ahead of
the Dos version... what i see happening is that people will be able
to use this to move their software away from DOS and [345]86 architectures
which will then die out, but Microsoft will survive because they're already
heading in this new direction :-(
G
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