home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: ix.netcom.com!netnews
- From: LdDev@ix.netcom.com (devil)
- 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)
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 14:53:01 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
- Message-ID: <31288d9d.169447820@nntp.ix.netcom.com>
- 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> <31285CB3.D2C@mts.se>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-nyc18-14.ix.netcom.com
- X-NETCOM-Date: Mon Feb 19 6:52:30 AM PST 1996
- X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.182
-
- Martin Nisshagen eloquently & electrically emitted:
-
- : polio wrote:
- :
- : > Isn't the 32 M RAM requirement a bit excessive? Do you realise how much
- :
- : Yes, NT runs OK in 12Mb and fine in 16Mb. From my experience NT consumes
- : about 4Mb more than OS/2 or Win95.
- :
- : > that RAM will cost someone, as well as the grand or so for a complete NT
- : > package?
- :
- [...]
-
- I use NT at work and Windows 95 at home; my 95 machine wasn't purring
- until I had 32M in it. Let's face it, you need as much RAM as you can
- afford for 32 bit technology. Fact two: 95 and NT will probably merge in
- a couple of revisions and the price will come down -- probably another
- $100 upgrade for existing 95 users.
- ________________________
- Ivy League fans -- http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/1146/
- http://members.aol.com/lddev/web/
-
-