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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 23:51:18 -0500
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- lalee@opus.freenet.vancouver.bc.ca wrote:
- >
- > 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..
- >
- > --
- > +-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
- > | Lawrence D. Lee | The debate is heating up, so come join |
- > | lalee@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca | us in vrfa.general and vrfa.hot-topics |
- > | Full Time CST BCIT (Sept '95) | The topic is censorship and the FreeNet |
- > | Vancouver FreeNet Volunteer | so come stick in your point of view. |
- > +-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
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-
- I don't know why I am increasing the length of this thread, but what the
- heck. As a student, I can get NT (workstation) for about 150 US dollars
- which is pretty good. As far as ram requirements....well, first
- the misconceptions that win95 actually runs in anything less than
- 12 megs is ridiculous. I have 95. I have three computers. I have
- done installations for at least a half a dozen other computers.
- Any computer with less than 16 megs, is really not running Win95 well
- enough. I personally have 48 megs of ram. I would never consider
- stepping down to 16 again. Win95 needs at least 24 megs to put itself
- in memory (and not in swap space). This is not true of plain win95,
- but when you add Plus!, and MS Office shortcut bar, I checked the amount
- of used memory on my 48 meg system. It was around 22-23 megs! Yes,
- just Win95, Plus!, and Office Shortcut Bar. As far as NT goes, well
- running the bundled system monitor, I checked available memory and it
- was around 36 megs. 48-36=12 megs used by NT. This was after I
- had installed Office 95 under NT, so Office shortcut bar was loaded.
- Assuming Plus! (basically desktop theme) takes up 1 meg of ram....Win95
- still takes a bit more than NT. Though 95 can swap itself out... if
- the stuff that gets swapped out is not important enough to be in ram,
- it probably shouldn't be there in the first place, ie, if it's there,
- it's probably important, and therefore, swapping it out should slow
- things down quite a bit.
- As far as multitasking... Well, I think 95 is a step up from DOS/Win 3.x
- but OS/2 (I own 2.1 and Warp) is a lot better at true multitasking (ie
- the ability to switch to something else NO MATTER WHAT is running in
- the foreground), but my short experience with NT has been quite
- impressive. NT doesn't stop, PERIOD. I ran about 3 copies of Word 95,
- 3 copies of Access 95, Excel 95, Winwrite, and a few others, and NEVER
- did NT stop me from INSTANTLY switching to another Program or starting
- a new one. For those who are denegrating NT or OS/2, I would suggest
- using all these OS's (Win95 inclusive) on non-underpowered machines, ie
- machines with AT LEAST 32 megs of ram, and then running a standard set
- of programs (like a good word processor, database) for each OS. Then
- try multitasking. There was a definite difference in the response the
- OS gave me when using Win95 or OS/2 or NT. 95 is great, but OS/2 , and
- especially NT are leagues ahead architecturally. Anyways...I am ranting
- on here, so I'll stop.
- Thanks for listening (er... reading :)
-