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From: bcrwhims@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Carsten Whimster)
Subject: Re: I have one thing to say about Windows '95 & FreeBSD
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 15:22:39 GMT
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In article <MICHAELV.95Sep14225405@mindbender.headcandy.com>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
| In article <jason-1309950002380001@xhead3.indy.net> jason@indy.net (Jason Miller) writes:
|
| So toss Win95 into the recycling bin and get a real server OS, be it WinNT
| Workstation or Server or FreeBSD or even Linux. BTW, FWIW, WinNT 3.51
| can run most "Designed for Windows 95" apps, and you can even FTP a
| prerelease Win95-like shell from ftp.microsoft.com.
|
| Actually, it's a contractual requirement for software companies that
| if they're going to be allowed to put the Windows 95 logo on a package
| (which has it's own validation suite), it must also pass the Win NT
| test suite.
|
| If it doesn't run on NT, as well as Windows 95, they don't get to use
| the Windows 95 logo.
...unless you can demonstrate that you need Win95 features, such as
VxDs, in which case Microsoft waives the NT requirement. Which is
consequently what developers are doing :) NT promotion from the
developers of edlin :)
--
Carsten Whimster bcrwhims@uwaterloo.ca
EDM/2 Associate Editor and Book reviewer
Team OS/2 POV-Panel/2 author
http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~bcrwhims/