From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,9ab76c2183ecc054 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-01 15:50:45 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!xfer13.netnews.com!netnews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada to C Translator Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 23:38:38 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <92r4dv$nfm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <92fk1v0cou@drn.newsguy.com> <92fqlt$h8d$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A4CF58B.A8FF223C@collins.rockwell.com> <92qfj7$7l9$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A50EFE2.7DA62AD4@online.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Jan 01 23:38:38 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x66.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3532 Date: 2001-01-01T23:38:38+00:00 List-Id: In article <3A50EFE2.7DA62AD4@online.no>, "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" wrote: > Robert Dewar wrote: > > > > Again, that is unsupported FUD. I am the last person to write > > strong words of support for NT, but to say that NT has reached > > end of life is absurd. > > Actually it is not. Microsoft will try its best to discourage both new > and old NT users and try to direct them to windows 2000. Their plan to > phase out NT 4 from the product line is rather agressive. > > Whether this plan will work as intended and in the time frame they hope > for is an open question. However they will try. > > Greetings, OK, If you are making this big a differentiation between NT and Win2K, then that's fine, but basically I simply regard Win2K as a renaming of NT 5, so I don't make this distinction. Sure, the *name* NT is at end of life :-) I would not count on the *name* Win2000 being used for the next version of the OS, so this name is also at EOL :-) Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/