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- From: carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl)
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- Subject: Re: Speaking of Window NT
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- Date: 31 Aug 92 20:16:17 GMT
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- >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.
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- You said acceptable but not outstanding?
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- #1) Demo Programs are not typical use of a system. They tend to use
- a very small fraction of the resources that are used when a complete
- version of the application is running.
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- #2) At least OS/2 *WILL* run on a 4 meg system - you can't even INSTALL
- Windows NT on a 4 meg system!!! ***OR*** for that matter on an
- *8* meg system!!! It takes 12 meg to even INSTALL Windows NT!!!
- Talk about a memory pig (or did Bill Gates just buy a lot of
- stock in the DRAM manufacturers :^) ).
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- -Carl-
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