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Jim,
I have been running TS on Win3.11 for years. I was running TS 3.5 until
January, 2000, when I switched to TS 4.
I recently switched from Signal data feed to an Internet feed, using a
cable modem, Quote.com, and Dynastore running in a separate machine from TS
4. Data feeds out from a serial port on the Internet machine to a serial
port on the TS machine. Dimitri, the developer of Dynastore, has a patch
which will make TS 4 receive data through the serial port at 57K, but I have
not installed it yet, because I have not seen any data loss. I trade
futures, including the MiniS&P which has lots of ticks, but no high volume
stocks.
I run QCharts for Quote.com on the Internet machine, which gives me a
separate charting program where I can watch something other than what I am
trading on TS 4, and gives me easy access to Globex overnight.
DynaStore has a program called DynaLoader which lets you download history
data from Quote.com and import it into TS 4 as .OMZ files, so I can fill any
gaps if I need to. Have had very few problems.
The TS 4 machine with Win3.11 is connected to my network of four other
machines, including the Internet machine, all running Win98 Second Edition,
so I can move files, backup, etc. All the machines except the TS 4 machine
share the cable Internet connection using Win98 Internet Connection Sharing
over my network. At some point I will move to Win2000, but I'm in no rush.
I am very happy with this setup. The TS 4 machine runs only TS 4, and is
rock solid. I shut down TS 4 on most weekends to backup, scandisk and
defrag, but I have left this setup running for three weeks without touching
it when I went on vacation. Worked perfectly. The cable modem has been
remarkably reliable, I have never had an outage. I do have a dial-up as a
backup.
I prefer dedicated machines, rather than trying to run everything together.
Hardware is cheap, my only problem is finding space for everything in my
office. I am thinking of adding a switch to allow one keyboard and mouse to
control multiple machines, but haven't got around to that.
If you have a network, it is worth moving to Win3.11 for backup and file
transfer. I see no advantage of adding the overhead of a big operating
system to TS 4.
Jim Sullivan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Osborn" <jimo@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: TS4 and Windows 3.1?
"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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