home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: nnrp.info.ucla.edu!cybervelveeta!usenet
- From: nedkelly@eagle.ais.net (Ned Kelly)
- Newsgroups: alt.2600,alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,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
- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Supersedes: <4gdlun$jo4@news.ais.net>
- Followup-To: alt.2600,alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,alt.destroy.microsoft,alt.fan.bill-gates,alt.wired,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.unix.unixware.misc
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 23:36:55 GMT
- Organization: The Melbourne Gaol
- Message-ID: <supersede.4gdlun$jo4@news.ais.net>
- References: <4ef48q$rik@news.iag.net> <iLFDxYWClVjE089yn@ibm.net> <4ejvl5$aag@er5.rutgers.edu> <4es2kg$cer@news.ais.net> <quiksilvDM6w33.8LI@netcom.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.960203235010.8473B-100000@howard> <4f3aqn$f4u@milo.freenet.vancouver.bc.ca> <3116b1d5.53797777@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> <311D75C6.40E0@ix.netcom.com> <poulosioDMzy0J.4zL@netcom.com> <Pine.SCO.3.91.960219183801.16811A-100000@cannet.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: laplace.ee.ucla.edu
- X-Original-Path: nnrp.info.ucla.edu!info.ucla.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ais.net!eagle.ais.net!nedkelly
- X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: eagle.ais.net
- X-Followup-Reset-By: an529939@anon.penet.fi
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
-
- reality (reality@cannet.com) wrote:
- : > Isn't the 32 M RAM requirement a bit excessive? Do you realise how much
- : > that RAM will cost someone, as well as the grand or so for a complete NT
- : > package?
-
- : Actually the ram requirements for the Windows NT WorkStation is only
- : 12megs. The Server is 24m. I have been very very very pleased with my
- : NT it has NEVER crashed. If a program crashes the system just dumps that
- : program and goes on like it never occured. I love it. 10x more stable
- : than Windows95, and at least a Million more than 3.1
-
- Even at $30 a meg, the RAM upgrade for me to use NT would still cost me
- $450 or so, not oncluding buying the NT itself. Both of my Linux boxes
- run on a mere 8 M apiece, and Linux runs great, including the networking.
- For my little LAN of 2 computers, setting up NT on both is prohibitively
- expensive. For the same costs of NTing my LAN, I could surely build a
- great computer, and drop my album in and install the Linux. :) When your
- wallet isn't like Billy Boy(tm)'s you realise what cost is. I'm not a
- one-man government. :(
-
- --
- Ned Kelly Lives!!!!!!
-
- PGP Public Key coming to a keyserver near you. Now beta testing Strine
- for Yanks, version 2.0 (with bug fixes for ver. 1.2).
-