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To: Lee who wrote (45185)	5/28/1998 3:44:00 PM
From: Paul Merriwether	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 176387

<< Could I ask what you consider as technology companies for learning purposes? Also, since you thought of PCs as toys until NT3.51 came out, now what do you consider them? Also, what might NT5.0 do to you evaluation? Maybe some of us users are 'outliers' or not in the mainstream but considering the growth rate of ISPs and on-line brokers, and not even considering new hardware configurations, are your estimations of PC utility changed? I consider PCs still pretty primitive but maybe my requirements are different than the market. >> I consider SUNW, INTC, IBM, DEC, HP, MSFT to be technology companies. They have been innovating rather than regurgitating. I think NT3.51+ are the first "real" operating systems that this platform has had(aside from SCO and unix ports etc.). My main gripe was against DOS(which btw I found very accesible and fun to play with) as a singleuser, hacky, unreliable OS. The first few versions of windows(the gui) were crap(imho). After they finally implemented preemptive multitasking, threads, security, memory management, virtualization and abstarction of hardware blah blah I took another serious look at it. I think they are a viable platform for engineering applications. Not good for life/mission critical applications because of reliability and not good for scientific applications("nuclear simulations" perhaps? :) because of limited performance). [I have not tried out NT5.0 Beta1 yet(I am a little leery of msft beta1's) but its been lying on my desk since dec. of last year and I am sorely tempted to install it on an old machine now(that I have waited in vain for 6 months for a "beta2").] I agree with you that PC's have revolutionized the world etc. and it has come a long way. best -P