Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators
Subject: Re: Linux, a great platform for racing simulators...
From: netlarry@xhisx.com (Larry Bles)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 07:06:25 -0500
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Yepper...

NT2K Consumer has been delayed 3 _years_, and now Win98 is no longer
expected to be the last 9x version...

Who didn't see this coming?

I'll speculate that MS is having a _bear_ of a time getting PnP and
other 'consumer' features working on the NT Kernel, and they
over-estimated the work that would be involved.


-Larry

Uwe Schuerkamp <hoover@ente.highway.bertelsmann.de> wrote:

> Well, maybe you should get your facts straight: Supposedly win98 will
> suffer several "followups" before the lines finally merge into the
> nt-only domain, but by then (sometime around 2004, I guess) we'll all
> be running Linux anyway.
