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This is a resend of prior post that never showed up:
For whatever its worth I am running Ts2k SP4c on Win2k (release ver bld
2195), DTN sat, TE920 high speed serial card with Win2k beta driver, PII450,
256mb, with no problems. In fact less problems than NT4 SP6. I now have
absolutely no serial port overruns. I was getting over 300 overruns per day
between the serial card and GS, now I get zero. Ts2k is faster under Win2k
for everything I do. I am not a system trader so I cant comment on running
big code, optimizations etc. But it is clear you dont have to wait for SP5
for basic charting and quote operations and you certainly dont need dual
processors to run Ts2k with acceptable speed.
As an aside I have my general work computer on Win2k also. It was on NT4
SP6. Win2k is vastly superior to NT in every way running usual business
software like IE5, Outlook2k, Excel, Word etc etc. Faster more stable,
easier setup and networking and finally I have power management. Reduced
the temp of my office from 80 to 72 degrees just by turning off the monitors
after 20 min of non use and the hard drives after 1 hour. Trading computer
stays hot all the time of course.
I also ran DTN sat on UMDS for a week under Win2k with no problems. UMDS is
superb, fast and stable. Collects every tick on everything without breaking
a sweat. UMDS also give you Adv/Dec mkt stats automatically by parsing the
individual values out of DTN's composit symbols. Of course DTN has
promissed to transmit these values under separate symbols in the relatively
near future thanks to the hard work of Bill Wynne from this list.
Bill Wood
-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan Figueredo [mailto:idf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 8:40 AM
To: Layne Hermansen D.O.
Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: TS2ki Release #5
Layne,
I would be careful. Although it is very possible that the new Windows 2000
makes better use of dual processors, this may not mean a perceived speed
improvement. From what I understand, you need about 200 Mhz more from your
processor to get the same performance out of Windows 2000 as opposed to NT
4.0.
The only real test of course is to have two identical systems, side by side,
running ts2k, and perform "benchmarks" (backtesting, optimizations, number
of realtime symbols collected, etc) to really see if it matters to you.
Regards,
Ivan
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