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Well, I'm planning on upgrading to Win98 sooner rather than later (to
paraphrase our peerless leader) however my thought is to buy the complete
version rather than the upgrade. For some reason, I don't like those
upgrade versions as I'm not sure you really get 'everything'.
One of my friends did all of the Alpha and Beta testing with Microsoft (they
think he's a developer) and he claims that Win 98 corrects, and here the
memory is fuzzy, somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 know bugs, flaws, etc. in
Win 95. Just that alone makes it attractive.
I'm also going to upgrade to 192Mb RAM and possibly look at an NT
installation on my 5.25Gb D: drive keeping the 8.4Gb C: drive Windows
virgin.
Guy
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:animal@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Animal
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 6:40 AM
To: 'metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: Use Win NT, throw out Win 95
One of the biggest issues with DOS programs and NT is when the DOS programs
attempts to write directly to various interrupts, i.e. the video drivers.
NT has a HAL kernel, Hardware Application Layer. Non-friendly DOS
applications which bypass this layer can send the whole thing out-to-lunch.
It is a "try-and-see" kind of thing. I have been installing Win98 lately
and have found it to be much improved over Win95 while not having all the
baggage related to NT. Don't know about Win98 and MS. It's on the list……
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Tann [SMTP:grtann@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 1:22 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Use Win NT, throw out Win 95
Jan
If I'm not mistaken, you can't run DOS MS on NT. I'm not sure if this is
true, as I have no personal experience, but this is why I never switched
over.
I have a LAN here in the house, and we all share each others CD-ROMs, files,
etc. With my 8 year old running a basic Win 95 Pentium 166 HP system for
educational and gaming software, how compatible are we, in terms of his
still being able to use Win 95 to share stuff? The 3rd machine is my better
half's ThinkPad 560 which also runs Win95. What type of problems would you
anticipate if I switched to NT? That's assuming I can still run MS for DOS
(again because Equis, in switching to Windows managed to change their
methodology in performing calculations and I haven't been able to make the
transition to their Win 95 version. I do use their Downloader for Windows
to update my data, but then switch to DOS to run my numbers. A real pain.
Regards
Guy
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of J.W.E Roberts
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 12:57 AM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Use Win NT, throw out Win 95
Hi Folks,
Allow me a word to the Wise: *Don't* use Windows 31 bit! I used to have
Win95 on the home-PC, and NT at the office. However, NT is so vastly
superior to Win 95 that I can only urge everyone who uses his/her PC
professionally to switch to Windows NT. The OS is secure, crash-proof
(well, almost ;-), and nearly as fast as Win 95. So far I've *never* had
Metastock quit on me yet!
You just have to install a bit more RAM which is a dime a dozen today -
64 MB is the absolute minimum, 128 MB advisable (doubling RAM speeds up
your PC much, much more than doubling the Herztes).
Kind Regards & Happy Trading,
Jan Willem Roberts
michael wrote:
> Thanks Penelope, Lionel, and Wacek
> Thanks for your replies, though some of you second guessed me. I'm
> happy with Win95 (well, sort of), but there's a study exercise that I
> have to do for a course that requires the use of 3.1.1. Oh well, I
> suppose I'll have to beg the use of a friend's computer (with 3.1.1
> installed ;-). Thanks for your help, all.
> Michael
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