#NT Myths…
John,
Honestly, and with all my respect, that was the biggest amount of half truths
that I have ever seen posted on line. I don't know how much time you have spent
with NT, but I have been running the bloody thing since its second beta and
while I like it 110% more than Windoze 3.1, some of the things you are saying
about it will produce a resounding laugh even to the NT team members.
The fact is that you can't go arround spreading such concepts about this OS,
raising the expectations of potential buyers that may be lured to buy right now
NT just because they have read and trusted your message. I don't know where or
who has passed you this info or if it is a product of a recent adquisition and
installation of NT on your part. The problem is that I don't think this kind of
messages benefit anyone, specially if it is intended to make people confident
about NT because you fell like they have to be confident in order to guarantee
a success on R5 for NT (which is my impression). Autodesk and the Yost Group
will have enough problems trying to convince their clients that NT problems are
overweighted by NT advantages and how 3DS will be benefited from this
advantages. I am aware of the advantages of this OS but also of the problems.
I have discussed NT's excellent features in this forum a hundred times,
features that for me are OBVIOUS; remember that I was the first one promoting a
Windows NT version of 3DS from the beginning (in fact, I have been too heavy
about it sometimes). And while I was being the biggest NT for 3DS promoter in
the forum -at the same time that the Yost Group was porting 3DS to NT- you,
specifically you, and others, were the DOS defenders, the promoters of the
simple Prompt, the Pharlap extender and the useless nature of the NT operating
system. WHY? Because you didn't need NT at all. HiRes QFX wasn't NT native at
the time, as well as your other primary applications. 3DS was a DOS program and
it worked well. Why NT then? And there was I telling you and everyone else the
clear benefits of porting the software to NT, despite of the faults that were
and are part of the nature of this operating system.
But now, you have everything you need ready for NT except for 3DS which will be
available soon. You are all set and all of the sudden, NT becomes your gospel.
Good for you! It has been mine for a couple of years. BUT then, are you aware
that still, NT can't be the religion of many people out there, 3DS users
included. It can't be because they have devices with no drivers for it. It
can't be because NO, NT can't run ALL DOS programs neither ALL Windows 3.1
programs. Maybe for your DOS and Windoze programs the thing works, but the
lists are full of people reporting incompatibilities with their old and new
Win3.1 software. And while you and me and other could easily upgrade, there are
others that can't. There are others (95%???) that even don't have NT or Win32
versions of their programs available that could run at decent speeds on NT. Not
to talk about DOS programs.
The thing about NT running OS/2 programs is so misleading that I think IBM
could sue you just for that. NT only can run OS/2 programs that run in text
mode (or in other words, a couple of network and communication applications).
Besides, what's the point of running OS/2 apps if you can run Windoze or NT
apps? It is like people buying a PowerMacintosh because they can emulate
Windoze. The driver thing is simply outrageous. Why you don't get a walk over
other forums and see all the messages requesting NT support for this or that
peripheral? FOR ME, YOU and others, the thing can support anything we have, but
"this is a clone world aaaaaafter all", and there are hundreds of hardware
combinations out there. The driver support in NT compared to Windows 3.1 is
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