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To: C. Zuck who wrote (7433)	1/29/1998 2:55:00 PM
From: William T. Katz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Which of those things will an NT box not do? Your never-crash-in-2-years scenario seems of little use to many engineers, particularly those in areas with poor electrical infrastructure. (Charlottesville has occasional power outages and even with a power backup, we would find occasion to power down a computer sometime over 2 years). Occasional power downs, particularly during vacations seem sensible. I'm currently running a C++ development studio, 4 Internet Explorer browsers, a mail/calender/task utility, two file directory programs, a source repository interface, and a telnet window with a HP Unix workstation at the university. I routinely run simulated annealing optimization programs on my machine which figure out radiation treatment plans in less than a minute. And my machine is a dual Pentium-166 running Win NT 4.0 with 128 MB RAM. It's not nearly as good as the dual PII-333's on sale now. I've also benchmarked different computer systems and I'd be very interested if you have a UNIX workstation that comes close to the floating point power of a NT alpha machine at even a 25% cost premium. I think engineers will continue to be split on NT vs Unix for a while, but NT will continue to gain mind share and market share. -Bill