Autodesk Confirms NT 3ds
31-May-95 14:35:38
Sb: #172250-Autodesk Confirms NT 3ds
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!