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Well, I guess there are about as many OS opinions as there OS's but if an
individual is happy with their OS that is all that matters.
I'm running TS4 on a dual processor NT4 machine and find it great for me.
The OS - even with all the network stuff, Acrobat etc - only occupies 300 MB
exclusive of the swap file. This I believe is considerably less than Win2K
if it matters. I run a dual boot system (NT and W95 -primarily just for DOS
use since my backup software runs from DOS) on a FAT16 drive and run all of
TS4 on a second logical drive with the Winternals FAT32 driver. Now nobody
jump down my throat over this. I chose FAT32 to be more compatible with my
Ghost backup software (Ghost will back up NTFS but individual file
restoration requires a FAT partition). I trade only stocks (almost
exclusively NASDAQ) and save six weeks of tick data on all active stocks and
indexes (about 16,000 symbols and a 850 Mb tick file off of the BMI feed).
The only time I could tell any slowing was when Intel took the dump.
Usually, I never realize that I am saving data on more than a few symbols.
Since TS4 only uses one processor, the second is free for systems
requirements and whatever else you want to use it for. I have really done
some bad things but have never crashed the system since I have been running
NT4. I used to run a TS4/W95 system and that crashed almost daily.
Bottom line - for a workhorse system I am *extremely* happy with NT4.
~Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: ted stampeen <tedco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: omegal-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, October 08, 2000 12:41 PM
Subject: OS Opinions
>grettings all,
>
> okay , well i am finally about to scrap the win98se, and having read
the
>posts,
> i am now wondering which would be the better way to go, NT, or 2000,
> i need nothing fancy, just good old reliability, for daytrading, running
>TS4, 128mb,
> and collecting tick-data for the E-mini, bonds, dow, nasdq, and a few
>dailies thrown
>into the mix, so nothing to serious. and also any problems switching over,
>as the good
>lord didnt bless me with a computer literate mind, so if it is a serious
>task, i would consider
>hiring someone to do it..
>
> many, many thanks, and goodtrading / Ted
>
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