Software Review: my humble opinions on Windows NT vs. OS/2
Ronald B. Krisko · XRDS Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students · 1995
Until recently, personal computer users did not have much of a choice about which operating system to run.Initially and for a long time since then, IBM's DOS(tm) or Microsoft's MSDOS(tm) was the only thing available.Now, there are many options including: Microsoft's Windows NT version 3.5(tm); IBM's OS/2 version 3.0(tm), also known as Warp(tm); and various forms of UNIX(tm).Today, I am going to review Microsoft's Windows NT verses OS/2.I am currently running three operating systems on my machine: MSDOS version 6.22 (tm), Windows NT version 3.5, and OS/2 version 3.0.I will not bother mentioning MSDOS anymore because it is not even in the league of the other multiprocessing operating systems.My machine is a Zeos 486/66 EISA system with a 1.2 Gig.Seagate SCSI hard drive, 16 MB of RAM, Toshiba 3401 CDROM drive, Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 ASP, 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives, Diamond Stealth SVGA video card with 1 MB of vRAM, Hayes Optima 144 Data/FAX, Colorado Trakker 250 MB tape backup, and Zeos SVGA monitor.Now that I have gotten the somewhat boring technical talk out of the way, I can get into the juicy part of this article.The reason that I have described my system is because it is mostly made up of ``popular'' and ``common'' components.When a software package says that it supports certain sound cards, CDROMs, hard drives, etc.