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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
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- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 02:15:44 GMT
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- In <Dn3LHB.M6C@iquest.net>, Chris <burnwort@iquest.net> writes:
- >inthane@oz.net (Thane Walkup) wrote:
- >>poulosio@netcom.com (polio) 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?
- >>
- >>>Let's see. The last time I bought RAM for an upgrade, I bought 4 M at a
- >>>Best Buy(tm) and it cost me $350 or so. Let's suppose I mail-ordered it
- >>>for a mere $200 instead.
- >>
- >>Damn! Memory around here is about $129 for 4mb, at least that's what
- >>it was two months ago... Probably less now. Also, the bigger the
- >>chip, the less the price per mb...
- >>
- >>>Starting with a computer with a mere 4M in it, I want to upgrade to NT
- >>>(for the example only!). I would need to buy 28 M at $50/M
- >>
- >>$30/mb if you know where to go, but it still adds up...
- >>Fnord.
- >>
- >>This post has been smiley captioned for the humor impaired.
- >>
- >NT requires only 16 Mb. of Ram and will run on a 486DX266 with no problem.
- >Total PC cost including NT, SCSI Tape Drive 1 gig HD is only 1700. or
- >less.
-
-
- Yeah, well.. OS/2 Warp will run on 4 mb, and Win 3.x will run on 2mb. It just all depends
- on what you mean by run, and what [if anything] you are running as applications.
- So sure, NT runs on 16 mb. And many folks say that is not nearly enough.
-
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