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- Subject: Re: NT or 95?
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 14:04:27 -0500
- Organization: Who Cares? Inc.
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- Max Bell wrote:
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- > >Incorrect. WinNT can run in 12. Optimum is 20megs for the
- > >workstation version, but 16 is apparently decent from what I've heard.
- >
- > Yes, it can "run" in 12MB just like X can run in 4MB -- namely, so slowly
- > as to be of value only as a curiosity. NT is barely tolerable on a 24MB
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- Please, keep your exaggerations to yourself.
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- NT on 12MB is A LOT better than X on 4MB.
- NT Workstation works just fine on a 486 with 16MB for everything but
- "workstation grade" apps. I have been using this configuration for YEARs until
- recently when I got a new Pentium system.
-
- > Pentium 60, so I doubt 16MB would be very enjoyable either.
-
- It is enjoyable. It is more "enjoyable" than a bloated UNIX on a 32MB SGI.
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- Kyong
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