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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Steve.Withers
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Speaking of Window NT
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:14:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.181437.10025@actrix.gen.nz>
- Keywords: Microsoft, Window_NT, SLOW
- References: <1992Aug27.113905.19790@actrix.gen.nz> <17mnt5INNdki@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Aug31.161704.17154@cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <1992Aug31.161704.17154@cis.ohio-state.edu> cantor@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu (scott eric cantor) writes:
- >
- > I don't know what the heck your friend's doing, but I can practically
- > guarantee you it's something wrong. We have NT running on a Dell 483/33 with
- > 16 megs of RAM, and it's performance is certainly acceptable. It took about
- > 20+ demo programs running at the same time before we noticed an appreciable
- > CPU slowdown. If you want slow, try OS/2 on a 4 meg 386.
-
- If - on the other hand - you want FAST. Try OS/2 on an 8 meg 386......NT can't
- do it, but OS/2 can.......:-)
-
- And OS/2 works, too! (NT can do a lot of demos/Besier curves - looks
- nice,sorta like a multi-windowed lava lamp.....if you want a 486/33 16 meg
- lava-lamp)
-
- Steve
- :-)
-
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