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

[sysadmin at up2speed1.up2speed.com]

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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