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- On 20 Feb 1995, John Foust wrote:
-
- > In the words of the immortal Tom Servo, "Bite me, it's fun."
- >
- > >>You can run WinNT for weeks and weeks without rebooting. Under regular
- > >>Windows, one little misbehaving application can take everything down,
- > >>including that "one minute to go" 23 hour rendering.
- >
- > I'm trying to save you mountains of anguish when regular ol' Windows crashes,
- > taking down every app you were running at the time. Maybe that app will be
- > LightWave. Maybe it'll be PhotoShop. Maybe it'll be a conflict between
- > your CDROM drive and your network card. Maybe it'll be that nifty Simpson
- > screensaver you downloaded last night.
- >
- > Let me put it in Amiga terms... if there was an AmigaDOS 4.0 that didn't
- > reboot the entire damn machine when one mis-behaving program went down,
- > except it cost $200 instead of $100, and it ran a lot better when you
- > added an extra sixteen megs (at about $650 these days), wouldn't you run
- > AmigaDOS 4.0 instead of 3.0?
- >
-
- I have to agree with Foust. We're running several NT boxes right next to
- several WFW 3.11 boxes. Most of the Intel NT boxes are configured
- identically with their WFW counterparts - same memory, HDs, etc. The
- difference in reliability and resultant productivity in rendering between
- NT and WFW is dramatic. Applications still die under NT, but their death
- doesn't bring down the OS or any other app that happens to be running at
- the same time, like ScreamerNet. In my humble opinion, Windows and
- Windows for Workgroups based machines are almost useless in a PRODUCTION
- RENDERING ENVIRONMENT. I emphasize production rendering environment so
- that everyone understands that I'm opinionating about equipment
- requirements for people who render for a living, not equipment
- requirements for people who render for pleasure. The only reason that
- we're not running NT on all the Intel machines in our office is that we
- don't yet have NT drivers for some of our scanners. Since you can now
- get Windows NT 3.5 Workstation for less than $100 and you can have both
- MSDOS/Windows and NT installed on the same HD partition and switch
- between them at boot time, we've opted to render under NT exclusively
- using SreamerNet now, and we'll run the Intel version of Lightwave under
- NT later.
-
- Boy, that was a long one.:)
-
-
- Dave Gilinsky (DG75)
- Pixel Dust, Inc.
- dave@gaspra.pd.com
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