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Dear Craig & Group,
Well, I guess we all have are own individual experience.
As one of those stick in the mud old farts, I'd like to say that for years I've been running TS4 and, more recently, TS2Ki on Win98SE without any of the problems that I hear so much about on this
newsgroup. We've talked a lot about why there seems to be such differences in experience about this. For me, is it that I'm only following a couple of issues (ES and several indeces)??? Or maybe
that I'm using an old multi-monitor card (a Colorgraphic Evolution-4)??? Or maybe because I'm in Seattle, just across Lake Washington from Win98's home, and Win98 just may prefer tall trees and ocean
breeze???
So, thank you for your suggestion, but all in all, I'd prefer to follow a favorite saying of my ex-father-in-law, born, raised, and died under the hot Texas sun (and from my perspective, stubbornness
personified): "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Mind you, I am certainly not challenging your experience, much less blaming you for it. My OS has been stable for me so far, for which I am truly grateful, and my first desire would be to hear that
yours is too. If I had the problems you and others are having with Win98, I'd be pissed too. I'm only saying that I believe the problem lies deeper than "Win98 is lousy," and that there may be
legitimate reasons why some people, under some circumstances, have so far abstained from "upgrading" to Win2K, at least as an OS for a TS-dedicated computer. My copy of Win XP, bought some time ago,
remains unwrapped and languishing in my drawer, awaiting any hint that Win98 is not carrying its prescribed load under TS. When that occurs, I'll post it on our newsgroup promptly and take my licks.
Until then, its "Win98: Onward and Downward" for me.
Sincerely,
Richard
_Craig wrote:
> There are some people here who stubbornly won't upgrade from Windows
> 98. If you are one of them, then no one can help you. You should
> have windows 2000 with at least 512 megs of RAM. In my opinion,
> TS2000i owners have no excuse otherwise.
>
> A lot of the problems has to do with the inferior memory management of Windows 95/98 and not
> TS2000i. This will make the environment a lot more stable. Beyond that, people
> do different things with their TS2000i --some things will trip off the
> bugs and cause TS2000i and/or the GlobalServer to blow up.
>
> You should have a real time computer and a "research" computer. That
> way, you are not doing all these things to TS2000i, while it is trying
> to track your trades and monitor the markets in real time.
>
> However, if your strategy(s) require Herculean TS2000i processing in real
> time, you may have an unsolvable problem since TRAD's quality
> control/assurance department dropped the ball on the Prosuite/2000i
> series.
>
> With no upgrade in sight, you may have to change your approach that
> will get similar results but does not require TS2000i to work hard.
>
> Mac> I'm at wits end with program. Whenever my computer freezes up on me and thats at lest once a day it takes me 15 minutes for the Global server to Initialize itself. During this time i loose all
> Mac> the data and my charts are useless. Any ideas besides throwing computer out the window?
>
> Mac> TIA
> Mac> Morris
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