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Guy,
Absolutely, positively no difference between the upgrade and full version --
don't spend the xtra money :-)
Guy Tann wrote:
> 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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