[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Windows NT



PureBytes Links

Trading Reference Links

I am running NT with Service Pack 3 (and I know many others doing the
same). There is no problem with TS.

Allan
_____________________

At 09:57 PM 5/14/98 +0000, John Hayden wrote:
>
>I got rid of win95 6 months ago, and am very glad I did. I am running NT
>workstation on a Micron laptop Transport XPE (150 MHz, Pentium w/MMX, and
>80 Megs of Ram). I have used TS for five years, and it runs great under NT.
>My only comment is to buy a machine with NT already installed on it, as
>tracking down all the device drivers is a real pain. You also want a lot of
>memory, NT is a real hog. It also has a DOS emulator that allows me to play
>my DOS based "GO" game.
>
>I have not installed service pack 3, as someone (I forget who) told me that
>it could cause certain conflicts with TS. Perhaps the biggest reason I like
>NT so much is that when I converted this computer over to NT, I partioned
>my 2 Gig HD, into 2 logical drives. Drive C has 200 MB and uses the FAT
>file structure, while Drive D has 1.8 MB and uses the NT file structure.
>The huge advantage is that just before I converted over to NT, I had maxed
>out my HD. After reloading all of the previous data and programs I have 174
>MB of space left in drive C, and 1.4 GB in drive D!
>
>The NT file structure is a lot more efficient. My last comment is that
>Microsoft told me that you want to make sure that you have your C: drive
>set up with the FAT file structure in case the HD crashed, and/or NT
>developed a fatal error.
>
>John Hayden
>