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Re: Why?!

On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 02:36:23AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
>  - M$'s decision to do the absurd merging of WinNT and Win95/8 into
> Win2000 will guarantee new refugees from the M$ world, along with

Hmmm. Offtopic I know, but why do you think it's absurd? If they actually
go with the driver scheme and hardware protection models in NT, it should
be pretty stable. That's going to break backwards compatibility with
DOS and Win16 apps that want hardware access, but that's what Windows
needs to be truely stable.


Hamish
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