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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 01:41:57 GMT
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- Patrick (patrick@corona.med.utah.edu) wrote:
- : I haven't yet seen a reasonably priced NT. In addition, NT is just plain
- : to freakin huge...too much disk space, too high a _minimum_ RAM
- : requirement, and very few home-user apps (though as more appear for Win95
- : they will by default be NT compatible).
-
- The shell release this quarter for the server/workstation I believe is
-
- supposed to allow NT to run any Windows95 compliant apps. Is NT still
- 16
- megs min.. what's the "real" requirement to run it smoothly? 32 megs?
- If
- I get some more RAM, I'll definetly consider jumping to NT..
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