Re: www.microsoft.com sure needs a lot of silicon

On 9 May 1997, Michael Parson wrote:

> Having two computers just so you can write up your reports in fancy fonts
> can be a pain. I'm guessing that you don't wanna do it in TeX though... =)

Why two machines? I have Solaris running on a machine with Windows NT Workstation... on the same drive, no less. I'm pretty sure you can do the same with Linux.

> Oh, I don't know that 'newer' means 'easier'... I seem to recall that
> DOS 3.3 was much easier to install than Win95 ;)

Solaris 2.6 (beta) is quite simple to install. However, I can't give you the details until it's shipped... pesky NDAs, you know.

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