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Subject: [OM] ES-10 and NT
From: Joseph <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:06:43 -0800 (PST)
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Windows 95/98 is designed for the consumer or home user market.  It is
sold by the tens of millions.  Windows NT is sold for the business
market in dramatically smaller volumes.  While we can all have a laugh
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Windows 95/98 is too unreliable even for a consumer market.  the only 
people I know who can tolerate it are people who have never used a
reliable computer system and just assume that is how computers are.
But when a system supports multitasking, it is not acceptable for
an application that crashes to take out the machine or render it
dangerous to keep using, but that's exactly how win95/98 (and MacOS)
are.  A real multitasking operating system will have full memory
protection so that a running program can only write into its own
memory space.  It's not that the driver architecture is different
with NT, but that user processes are not allowed write into the device
driver address space.  If Olympus or whoever is doing these sorts
of things, preventing them from porting to NT, then their stuff is
designed very poorly anyway, and one would be better served by
using someone else's product.

When most software is designed properly, it isn't that hard to support
multiple platforms by encapsulating the platform-specific code into
a small set of functions.  If Olympus doesn't want to support NT or
Linux or Solaris/X86 they are basically saying their ES-10 is a consumer
toy.

Joseph


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