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"Cash" <cashc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>We all know that the higher version of Windows you get, the more overhead
>you have.
>
>So, I was wondering if you only wanted to run TS4 on a power-house
>machine (800mhz+) and had Win3.1 as your operating system, would that be
>a faster, less problematic solution than Win95,98,2000?
>
>Has anyone investigated this?
When I asked this question of a Microsoft software engineer, he replied
that it depended mainly on how many tasks you were asking your computer
to do. If, like me, TS4 is your only application, so that Windows is
nothing but a wrapper for that application, then Win3.1 is the choice.
Mine does just fine collecting the CME from BMI satellite with a T-port
on a 486-66 machine with 32Meg of ram. Others have mentioned the
name-length limitations of Win3.1, but I doubt that that's a problem
with TS4. If you're trying to deal with thousands of stocks or
something else fancy, you might run into memory-handling limitations
in Win3.1; I don't know what those limitations are, but I suspect
there are some.
If you need to run lots of applications at the same time as TS, you're
better off with Win95/98/2000. I've been advised that Win95 has much
less overhead than any of the other 32-bit choices, and would be the
only thing possible on my 486, should I want to "upgrade" say, for
networking purposes (I don't anticipate adding any other apps to that
machine).
Jim
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