This section summarizes differences in the two products that will persist
over time.
This section summarizes differences in the two products that will persist
over time.
Product Feature Windows 95 Windows NT
Workstation
Application Support
System Resource Capacity Greatly Unlimited
expanded
Runs MS-DOS applications Yes most (1)
Runs IBM Presentation Manager (through 1.3) & POSIX No Yes
1003.1 applications
Application and Data Protection
Preemptive multitasking for Win16 applications No Yes
System completely protected from errant Win16 and No Yes
Win32 applications
NTFS file system provides complete protection of No Yes
files on a stand-alone system (Files, folders, and
applications can be made "invisible" to specific
users)
Has automatic recovery from a system failure No Yes
System and Peripheral Requirements and Support
Runs MS-DOS device drivers Yes No
Runs Win16 device drivers Yes No
Minimum recommended RAM 8MB 12MB
Typical disk space requirement 40MB 90MB
Runs on PowerPC, MIPS, and DEC Alpha AXP-based RISC No Yes
systems
Supports multi-processor configurations for No Yes
scaleable performance without changing operating
system or applications
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