[WinMac] Bleeding edge
thomas kase(thomas[at]accessio.com)
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:38:50 -0500
First of all, note that I am an NT user... ;-)
Has anyone else noticed how the requirements to run NT in a
successful fashion seem to include:
* incessant monitoring of the latest drivers
* installing optional GUI front-ends
* using alternate color management schemes
* hacking the Registry
* ... etc, ad nauseam ...
not to mention the need to run it on esoteric hardware (i.e. Alpha)
as well as signing up for ultra-premium customer support services
>from one of the country's top two premier vendors of aforementioned
hardware.
In short, for successful deployment of NT, the receipe seems to be to
do nothing short of rewriting and/or tweaking large parts of the OS as
well as adopting a hardware platform that the designer of NT never
intended the OS to work on, as well as to contract for far better support
than just about all users of NT have access to.
Do I hear the words 'bleeding edge' and 'reality check' - the latter as in
the 'desperate need for a' context?
FYI, the famed David Cutler actually has had very little part in the making
of the upcoming NT5. Maybe that's why the project isn't going anywhere.
In either case, Cutler's back again for NT6 - as far as I have heard. Maybe
by then the problems will be taken care of.
At least with the release of NT6 SP4 surely.
Thomas Kase
US-Style.com Inc., 33 south main street, #7, south norwalk, ct 06854
phone: 203.866.4454 fax: 203.866.4546
email: thomas@accessio.com
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