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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 01:34:52 GMT
- Organization: Internet Atlanta
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- poulosio@netcom.com (polio) wrote:
- >Isn't the 32 M RAM requirement a bit excessive?
-
- A matter of perspective.
-
- First of all...what do you intend to do with NT? When you talk about
- what "someone" would have to pay for NT, you are talking about an
- individual who wants to run NT, as opposed to a company using NT to
- support a buisiness function.
-
- Very different situations.
-
- Second of all...NT Workstation runs marginally in 16MB, and quite
- nicely in 24MB.
-
- 32MB is more a server level of memory; sort of a best-case scenario,
- unless one is running large SQL Server (or other) databases, or one
- has large numbers of users.
-
- Of course...if you'd worked with NT, you'd know that.
-
- P.S. - I don't particularly care to run Linux+X11, my other personal
- OS, in less than 16MB. YMMV.
-
- >Do you realise how much that RAM will cost someone, as well as the grand
- >or so for a complete NT package?
-
- Better than you, it would seem. RAM is running about $35-$40 a meg
- these days in the YooEss. Still a good chunk of money for 32MB, but
- then, for NTWS, you don't nessesarily need 32MB.
-
- >Now, you need the software, the NT of course. That's $400 for a bare-bones
- >crippled NT.
-
- Rubbish.
-
- Perhaps you'd care to point out where NTWS is "crippled" considering
- it's for clients and not for servers. That is, in properly managed
- networks, you don't want workstations sharing resourses with everyone,
- don't generally require RAID, shouldn't be domain masters, etc.
-
- >I hope your PC has a PCI motherboard, as that's another $150 or so, not
- >including the CPU.
-
- This is, of course, completely wrong. PCI is nice, but VLB, EISA or
- MCA all run NT very, very well.
-
- Of course...if you'd worked with NT, you'd know that.
-
- >That Pentium's slow, eh? Add another $500 for a faster chip!
-
- Um...no. NT will run adequately on a DX2/66, and quite well on a
- DX4/100.
-
- Of course...if you'd worked with NT, you'd know that.
-
- BTW: I'm typing this on a VLB NexGen Nx586/90 which runs the hell out
- of NT. The board+CPU cost me about $260.
-
- >See how EXPEN$IVE NT becomes? If I could afford NT, I'd get a car
- >instead!
-
- How very silly.
-
- NT has more than it's share of limitations, bugs, annoyances and nits,
- but you haven't hit any of them.
-
- >Lick me!
-
- Very mature....
-
- - Ken
-
-
-