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To: ToySoldier who wrote (12039)	11/4/1998 1:28:00 PM
From: miraje	Respond to of 74651

NW5 and NDS are perfect Oh, wonderment! Oh, rapture! Novell is perfect. MSFT is total garbage. Yada yada. At least you don't lay claim to any semblance of objectivity or reason. If I held your views, I'd give up on the penny stocks and go long NOVL and short MSFT with all the cash I could beg, borrow or margin. If perfect isn't a sure thing, I can't imagine what is.

To: ToySoldier who wrote (12039)	11/4/1998 2:06:00 PM
From: Cory Gault	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Toy: Yeah right...just like we wouldn't ever see 100 again on this stock (your words a couple months ago)and the stock would close at 102 the day after earnings announcement (106 1/2 actual), enjoying the humor though!!!!!!!!!

To: ToySoldier who wrote (12039)	11/5/1998 8:40:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Toy - A couple of points on your architectural discussion need correcting. monolitic and non-modular OS Nothing could be further from the truth. NT is highly componentized. With the introduction of embedded NT, custom-tailored versions of the OS, which use only the components required for a particular requirement, will be available. It is possible to build a version of NT which provides not only all of the base OS and connectivity functionality but also NOS and application support, which boots in less than 10MB and runs comfortably in less than 16MB. One can also construct a version which does not require disk, an amazing feat for a virtual-memory OS. Versions of this packaging of the OS are in test now with a number of OEMs. Don't confuse the '50 million lines of code' with the core OS components. The whole of the code base for NT5 contains a wide variety of components beyond base OS capability.