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Is anyone aware of the UMDS attempting to build an interface directly to
Ts2000i global server ?
I can't see having to run both Excel and Dynastore at the same time...just
to interface to Ts2000i...
BTW: Where's the UMDS website ?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Wood [mailto:wrwood@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 12:47 PM
> To: Omega List
> Subject: TS2ki Release #5/DTN
>
>
> 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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