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Dear John,
Thank you for your valuable comments.
Manning Stoller
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
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