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To: Klaus B. Biggers who wrote (3475)	11/6/1997 10:33:00 PM
From: Mike Mackovitch	Read Replies (1) of 14451

Before I get put down as an "NT basher" again, let me just state a few things: Re: SGI worship I don't worship SGI. I am an engineer there, and as such I probably see a lot more of the crappy side of SGI than I'd like to. The only reason I watch/post to this thread is to counteract any SGI bashing that should occur (and annoy me enough at the time ;-) Re: denouncing MS My post was not meant to simply denounce MS... it was meant to point out that MS is a lot better at marketing anything than at engineering it. Your original post said that MS's loads of cash created an OS good enough to give SGI a run for its money. Which I (IMHO) happen to disagree with. Re: NT vs 4D20 It's nice to see that your NT machine stays up longer than your 4D20 but how does your NT box compare to any current SGI machine. Does your "RE3" crash more than your NT box? Re: why could NT all of a sudden be good enough for SGI now? It's possible that SGI doesn't necessarily think that NT is better now... but that it thinks that it will be better in the future - and possibly that SGI might be able to help improve the quality. (all speculation on my part) Re: how much I know about NT I'm no NT expert. unwilling to learn? I don't think so. I know what it takes to get SGI's systems to be as good as they are (particularly on the high end), and I know that NT doesn't have the ability to support what we do. If there's a chance that NT could, I'd start working with NT. Why? Heck, it might mean that I could finally afford one of our cool/kick-ass (IMO) machines some day. Re: feeling warm and fuzzy about buying NT from SGI. I'm not going make any claims about what an SGI NT product might look like or how it would perform. As to whether someone gets warm fuzzies about it, I'd say look at the machine when it comes out and compare it to others... if you don't like it, don't buy it. Lastly, let me just reiterate that I'm not here to worship SGI and bash anything else. I'm just here to try to counteract any SGI bashing/misinformation that some people on this thread seem to love to do. --MikeM

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