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  1. Path: freenet.vancouver.bc.ca!lalee
  2. From: lalee@opus.freenet.vancouver.bc.ca (Lawrence Lee)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.2600,alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,alt.comp.virus,alt.crackers,alt.cracks,alt.cyberspace,alt.destroy.microsoft,alt.fan.bill-gates,alt.wired,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.unixware.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
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  6. Date: 4 Feb 1996 22:09:27 GMT
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  13. Patrick (patrick@corona.med.utah.edu) wrote:
  14. : I haven't yet seen a reasonably priced NT.  In addition, NT is just plain 
  15. : to freakin huge...too much disk space, too high a _minimum_ RAM 
  16. : requirement, and very few home-user apps (though as more appear for Win95 
  17. : they will by default be NT compatible).
  18.  
  19. The shell release this quarter for the server/workstation I believe is 
  20. supposed to allow NT to run any Windows95 compliant apps. Is NT still 16 
  21. megs min.. what's the "real" requirement to run it smoothly? 32 megs? If 
  22. I get some more RAM, I'll definetly consider jumping to NT.. 
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  26. | Lawrence D. Lee               | The debate is heating up, so come join  |
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