Alfredo,

I suffer from the same affliction you do, English is not my first language
either.  But I read the posting only once, and I understand what it is
saying.  I agree with you that the HP 3000 is super-stable, unfortunately
it does not have a GUI-based office suite that people can use.  So they use
a Windows based PC.  Actually, the bandwidth needed to support a GUI-based
office suite on the HP 3000 would bring any network down to its figurative
knees.  Which is where the NC will suffer.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .
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From:   F. Alfredo Rego[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Tuesday, 25 March, 1997 3:13 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Stability in your environments

Ron Seybold <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>It goes on to say that some customers are choosing NT Workstation over
>Windows 95 because it suffers fewer time-wasting system crashes. "Our
>commitment to our   business partners is that we have stable machines,"
>said one manager.

Is this a joke or is it for real?


Let me see if I get it straight on the fifth reading:

>It goes on to say that some customers are choosing NT Workstation over
>Windows 95 because it suffers fewer time-wasting system crashes.

So, people are wildly choosing something because it has "fewer time-wasting
system crashes"?  Why do they do so when they have the super-stable HP3000?


>"Our commitment to our business partners is that we have stable machines,"
>said one manager.

What?  Is "fewer time-wasting system crashes" an indication of "stable
machines"?  These people obviously have a totally different standard of
"stability" than the standard upheld by HP3000 users.


I know English is not my native language and I am probably missing some
deep meanings here.


>Stability: an attribute where NT will play catch-up with the 3000 for some
>time to come -- just as Unix has for many years.

No kidding here :-)


>Read it for yourself at
>http://www.computerworld.com/features/970324scheier.html

Please do, and let me know about YOUR interpretation.  I need all the
language help I can get!


>It's also interesting that the Computerworld Web page is created with a
Mac
>(reading the source code verifies this).

Very perceptive of you, Ron.  It indeed is created with a Mac (which I
verified by looking at the source code, as you recommended).  You are a
bits-and-bytes tinkerer, I see...




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