Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 20:55:59 From: "Manfred Usselmann" <Usselmann.M@icg-online.de> To: "Adam" <bsdx@looksharp.net>, "Philip Jones" <thearc@access1.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Unix vs Win98 Message-ID: <20000107200131.07B1115615@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001070320210.32563-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 03:21:09 -0500 (EST), Adam wrote: >Straight and clear cut, the operating system you are looking for is >Microsoft Windows NT. > >On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Philip Jones wrote: > >>Hello, I'm just a "consumer/lay person" using Win98. >>I know that Win98 is just a "windows shell" over dos. >>Unix I hear is a very stable integral system. >>Do they make a "Windows" point & click Op. system, >>which can accept popular program CD's... i.e. MS Office, >>or Netscape, or WinFax Pro, Quicken? Quicken 2000 is Win95/98 _only_, not Win NT or Win 2000. At least this the case for the current German version of Quicken 2000. So maybe Windows NT isn't the solution either. >>Do they make a competitive Op. system for the consumer to use? >>Or should I look to IBM OS2, for these features? >>Or are there any other Op. systems which can perform like Win98, >>but with more stability? >>Thanks, Phil Jones >> -- Manfred Usselmann usselmann.m@icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- I C G Informationstechnologie Consulting GmbH Bahnstr. 7, D-65835 Liederbach / Ts. Tel. +49 69 333 623, Fax +49 69 306 845 -------------------------------------------------- http://www.icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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