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- Subject: Re: NT WoW turned off (Was: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? )
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:23:29 +0100
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- Jay Schamus wrote:
-
- > Is it just me, or are you saying that, basically NT runs fine in 8 meg as long
- > as you don't run anything!!! Well, at least not anything useful. No win16, no
-
- Nope, I say it run's fine as long as You don't run several huge and bloated apps
- like MS WORD6. It seems like Word6 *alone* needs minimum 8Mb to be OK. This is
- independent if You run it on Mac, OS/2, Win95, NT etc. Running several smaller
- apps (smaller than MS office products) was OK in 8Mb NT without the WoW layer.
-
- Even if it wasn't fastest machine in the world, it still was so stable and had
- OK performance that I runned NT like that for half a year without any significant
- problems. If You only have 8Mb, don't run several moster apps at the same time,
- and are tired of Win95's poor multitasking and stability I can only recommend
- you to try it out for yourself. If anyone needd any more tweaking tips or other
- type of optimations of NT in 8Mb, I will be glad to help people doing so.
-
- > wordprocessors, spreadsheets, database, graphics apps or games (like you'd want
- > run games under NT with ANY amount of memory). I've run NT on a machine with
-
- I run several great games under NT without any problems; WinDOOM II, GravityWell,
- Hover, Fury 3X, PBA, Pitfall etc etc.
-
- Works great.
-
- > 16 meg and it ran like a snail on qualudes. I shudder to think what it's like
- > with only 8 megs. Nap time!! :-)
-
- It depends on your hardware congfig, I have seen many 16Mb machines with NT who
- is equal in performance with OS/2 and Win95. I suggest You to read the chapters
- about optimistaion in the NT 3.51 resource kit if your having some performance
- problems with your setup.
-
- Best regards,
-
- m a r t i n n
-
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