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

[William Wood]

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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