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Autodesk Confirms NT 3ds

    31-May-95 14:35:38
Fm: Marion K. Marks 70700,2777
To: Mark Yankee 73052,3142
Uh, have you actually tried both? Warp's installation has been praised in comparative reviews as being easier than NTs in most circumstances (of course, there are exceptional configurations that will confuse both, but that goes for any significant software packages: witness all the threads in this very Forum regarding getting certain video cards, memory managers and the like to work with 3DS). Warp's user-interface is VASTLY superior (indeed, almost EVERY SINGLE SIGNIFICANT NEW FEATURE of Win95's "new" user-interface was in OS/2 first!). In some respects, NT is technically superior to Warp (NTFS beats the socks off of HPFS, for instance–of course, Warp could easily add NTFS support with a simple add-on). In others, Warp is superior (DPMI 1.0 is the only REAL DPMI. DPMI 0.9 is a beta specification only, yet that's all that NT or any other version of Windows supports). The latest Warp (Warp Connect) installs client connections to Novell and other networks much easier than Windows for Workgroups or even Windows95, let alone Windows NT. And finally, Warp MULTItasks 3DS RIGHT NOW, and has for well over a year! Windows NT can't even SINGLEtask 3DS and won't be able to until 3DSr"5" comes out! Why wait? Or do you honestly think that having to REBOOT YOUR SYSTEM just to switch to a paint program and then REBOOT AGAIN to switch back to 3DS is an acceptable use of your productivity time while waiting for the new version? If so, we'd love to have you as a local competitor!