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I have no desire to enter into a comparison discussion between TS & TL
--don't know anything about TL-- There are three issues that I've dealt
with that relate directly to performance in Win-95 that are relevant.
One is increasing the amount of Ram, which has been discussed. Another is
upgrading to Win-95 OSR2, which I find much smoother and stable than the
original versions of Win-95 -- unfortunately it was never offered as an
upgrade, as far as I know. The only way that you can get it legally is to
buy a machine that already has it installed. Probably a machine built
within the past year.
You might be able to borrow a Win-95 install disk from someone with a new
machine, but I understand there are some Bios incompatibility issues that
may interfere with an install on an older machine and that is why MS never
offered it as an upgrade.
A very important issue with performance and crashes is the number of File
Selectors that are available at any time during a Win-95 session. This
issue has been discussed at length here before. Win-95 starts off with
about 7200 selectors after a clean-boot and the pool diminishes as tasks are
added. Everything uses them (charts, indicators, etc.) and draws from the
pool. Once the pool drops below about 1000, you could be heading for a
crash. I monitor the pool of available selectors with a program called
WMEM.EXE and adjust the amount of resources I'm using in TS accordingly.
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At 11:08 AM 6/5/98, you wrote:
>ron wrote:
>>I've had no problems with the Server crashing. My computer began having
>>less problems in general with everything when I upgraded from 32meg of Ram
>to 96meg.
>
>I've run TS 4.0 Build 19.6 on both WFW 3.11(16 megs) and Win95 (96 megs).
>Believe it or not, WFW 3.11 was the most stable of the two.
>
>I've experienced nearly all of the Server crashes in Win 95 as a result of
>video driver conflicts (S3 Virge) still unresolved 1+ year later by Omega
>tech support (surprise, surprise). While WFW 3.11 has not crashed, it
>still has quirky video problems (ATI Mach 64...especially fonts...missing
>letters and numbers) when running TS. Omega tech support has yet to
>resolve these problems in over 4 years. And, yes, these problems ARE the
>direct result of running TS...no bash, just fact! The weekend scan disk,
>defrag, and hard reboot eliminates 99% of the TS related crashes.
>
>So, I heartily welcome TL as an alternate trading platform, even though
>it's still experiencing growing pains. Bob Brickey is to be commended for
>his open discussion of TL related issues that concern traders most.
>
>-Tony Haas
>
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