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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 18:33:37 GMT
- Organization: Nova Scotia Technology Network
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- In <4gbbih$1ke@nntp.atlanta.com>, ken@seefried.com (K.J. Seefried III) writes:
- >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
- >
- >
-
- I've been told that NT compares to Connect a number of times, but what I want to
- know is, if NT has seperate client and server, how do you use it for two PCs? I have
- 2 PCs in my home with WARP connect, and when I am sitting at one, I want full access
- to everything on the second and visa versa, does this mean I have to run NT server
- on both or what? Or NT client and server? This isn't a flame, just a question.
-
-
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