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

[David Hansen]

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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