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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: NT Destined to Succeed??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.185708.9943@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:57:08 GMT
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- In article <1igie4INNlsl@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu> spexet@math.lsa.umich.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan06.223236.11604@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >> Because it's false. Windows NT _does_ run in 8 megs - it
- >>just didn't do so for Steve when he tried it.
- >
- >Then in Steve's case, your statement is a falsehood, and you should clarify
- >it as such.
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-
- Steve took a copy of NT that had been installed and configured
- for a 16 meg machine and put it on an 8 meg machine
- ("almost identical") didn't change anything, and blasted it
- for crashing. [He didn't know at the time that it had been
- installed in 16 megs, butheknew it had been running in 16 megs
- for awhile. My copy of OS/2 was installed in 4, but now it's
- running in 16. I *promise* that if I took my current copy and
- plopped it on a 4 meg machine (8megs being the NT minimum) it
- would crash and die.]
-
-
- >When you say "Windows NT will run in 8 megabytes", perhaps you could state
- >more specifically how much this is, and how strict the requirement is. Does
- >"8 megabytes" mean 8192K, or does it mean 8192+256K? Will NT run in slightly
- >less than 8192K, or does it require 8192K, or even slightly more than 8192K?
-
-
- I imagine that it's reasonable to assume that even on systems
- that steal 384k it will probably run. I haven't seen it on
- any machines that do this that I can remember.
-
-
- --
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- Shepherds are for sheep. ----- Pain teaches.
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