[ale] Re: windows 98 drags bhind as usuall.

Dave paranoia at trusted.net
Fri Aug 22 01:52:08 EDT 1997


Windows 98?!  A year ago I never thought HTML editors would make it this
far...

sysadmin at up2speed1.up2speed.com wrote:
> 
> well i have had both the win 98 beta as well as nt 5.0
> cairo. Both were
> buggy as hell with my hardware and linux just keeps on trucking.
> anyone interested in 2.1g western digital hd?
> im going scsi this fall.
> 
> On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, David Hansen wrote:
> 
> > hmm...not all of these features are new to  win95. wonder why they placed
> > them there.
> >
> > On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, William Wood wrote:
> >
> > > Sounds like a linux box to me....:)
> > >
> > > On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Josh Murrah wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I read the 'features' of windows '98 beta 2, and it seems that Microsoft
> > > > is struggling to catch up, as usuall.  Your your entertainment, I thought
> > > > I'd list a few 'leading features' that MS W98 has:
> > > >
> > > >   1)  non-interactive disk defragmenting.
> > > >   2)  the ability to run programs at set times.
> > > >   3)  Capturing of GPFs (FirstAid has been doing this for years)
> > > >   4)  support of SCSI tape drives for MS backup.
> > > >   5)  scandisk after improper shutdown.
> > > >   6)  dynamicly changing resolutions (w/out having to reboot)
> > > >   7)  FAT32 (ok, it's still not much of an improvment, but ohwell)
> > > >   8)  advanced APM support (linux has had this for a while)
> > > >   9)  Multiple display support.  What a novel concept.
> > > >   10) Remote Access Server.  Wow, dialing into a win98 box seems
> > > >           scary to me.
> > > >   11) integrated internet shell.  Don't have a clue what this is
> > > >           about, but I figure linux HAS to have them beat on this one  :)
> > > >   12) multilink channel(serial load balancing)
> > > >   13) various IE browser things that netscape already does.
> > > >   14) personal web server.
> > > >   15) IP tunneling/encapsulation.
> > > >   16) NOOO!  a 'online services folder'.  AOL advertizements?
> > > >   17) scripting ability.
> > > >   18) better netware support
> > > >
> > > > Hope you enjoyed.  The URL for the features page is :
> > > >
> > > >   --> http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/info/memfeat.htm
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Joshua Murrah, jmurrah at salug.org, http://www.salug.org/~jmurrah
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> > >
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