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- From: timbol@netcom.com (Mike Timbol)
- Subject: Re: NT won't run in 8 megs: Try OS/2 2.1 in 4 megs!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.215618.18117@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Dec29.212551.18659@netcom.com> <1hr7tsINN544@cae.cad.gatech.edu> <1992Dec30.095615.26907@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:56:18 GMT
- Lines: 57
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- In article <1992Dec30.095615.26907@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >In article <1hr7tsINN544@cae.cad.gatech.edu> chris@cad.gatech.edu (Chris McClellen) writes:
- >> In <1992Dec29.212551.18659@netcom.com> timbol@netcom.com (Mike Timbol) writes:
- >>
- >> ...First there's Steve Withers
- >> ]proclaiming that NT requires 90 megs (but at least he's tried it), and
- >> ]now you say it takes up "alot [sic] of that 100 meg HD, if not all".
- >> [ .. and so on ]
- >
- >Having not installed NT on the hard disk in question, I may have erroneously
- >assumed that all the 90 megs in use on the disk was NT and its swap file.
- >Certainly, my co-worker in Auckland who actually did the NT install told me
- >that he had installed nothing else on the disk........so whatever SDK's etc.,
- >may have been there, I considered to be "NT". Certainly, the 27meg swap file
- >seemed consistent with such a conclusion.....:-)
- >
- >Without the "SDK", just how big is it? It won't even start on my 386DX/40 with
- >8128K, so I haven't had a chance to examine it closely. It does work on the
- >the 8384K 486DX/25 at work....*just*......but I haven't had time to get back
- >to it. That extra 256K seems to make or break the start-up.
-
- Without the SDK, the October Beta of Windows NT requires a little over
- 30 MB for its files, plus 20 MB for a swap file. It *DOES* run on an
- 8 MB machine, but is apparently having a problem with yours.
-
- >> It doesnt run well at all in 8 megs. If you've run it, you SHOULD know
- >> that. He is definitly wrong saying one would want 8 megs for NT.
- >> There is nothing wrong with my comparisons when he says they both
- >> perform APPROXIMATLY the same in 8 megs. I say hes wrong.
- >
- >I'd agree with you that such a statement by Petzold is not consistent with
- >reality as I know it.......
- >
- >> ]I don't see why certain people persist in spreading this misinformation
- >> ]and trying to discredit people like Petzold who simply don't share your
- >> ]narrow viewpoint. But I suppose that if you say them often enough,
- >> ]you'll start to believe them.
- >
- >I don't deal in FUD. I may make mistakes now and again......but FUD isn't my
- >style at all. Thankyou for pointing out that NT takes less than 90 megs of
- >disk space. I realise it is more likely to be 60-70 megs.....without the
- >SDK.... (Am I getting closer?)
-
- Well, you are getting closer :) Your friend may have done a full install,
- so you can check the size of all the files in the \winnt directory and its
- subdirectories. That should give you the size needed for NT without the
- SDK. Then add the swap file size.
-
- >NT doesn't even run in 8128K....not on the machines I have tried it
- >on.....maybe with FAT it might (certainly not NTFS). But then if you run it on
- >FAT, there goes the file security and the many performance advantages!
-
- NT does run on an 8 MB machine. Not terribly fast, but it runs.
-
- >Steve
-
- - Mike
-