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As always, the community on this list is both generous and knowledgeable,
answering even the most mundane questions. "We"(and by that I mean all of
us) wouldn't have survived without "you". Thank you very, very much.
Jim Osborn wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:11:28PM -0400, alchemyllc@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > I have a pc that I have had for years, that has W95 as its
> > operating system. I use it to run TS4 only. Within the past two
> > days, I have been unable to get a full boot into Windows. I assume
> > this being caused by some corrupted Windows file. Anyone have any
> > ideas?
>
> The first idea that occurs: are you sure you don't have a hardware
> problem? If it's an old pc, things do wear out.
>
> If you're really running only TS4, with whatever support programs
> it needs, then you might want to stay with W95. People who know
> more about MS Windows than I do have told me that as MS has moved
> along its operating systems arc, from 3.1 to W95 to W98, etc.
> that the OS has become slower, more bulky and resource-demanding
> at each step. It's made the hardware vendors very, very happy.
>
> I consider MS Windows to be simply a "wrapper" around TS4, my
> one-and-only Windows app, running in its very own computer,
> not networked to anything except the DTN satellite data feed.
> Obviously, I'm also running Dynastore, but to me, it's just a
> part of TS, both wrapped in W95.
>
> That's on a PII with 128M RAM. It's never crashed.
>
> > My real question is this. I bought another pc, with a slightly
> > faster chipset and as much Ram (512mb) with W98 as its operating
> > system. (I chose not to upgrade to W2k or XP owing to emulators and
> > other software which would only run on W95, plus everything worked
> > well) When I installed and ran TS4 on the W98 machine it ran slow
> > and choked. I was very surprised that the W98 machine couldn't
> > handle TS4, while the W95 machine could. Anyone have any ideas why
> > this would be the case? What is considered the best most stable
> > operating system to run TS4? Thanks
>
> Stability and security are separate, of course, from speed. You
> wouldn't be the first person to have trouble running TS4 on W98.
>
> If I were you, and were running only TS4 without any network
> connection to the outside world, I'd install W95 on the new machine
> with its fancy hardware and run TS4 in that environment. How much
> grief you would have to go through would depend on what sorts of
> backups you have of all your bits and pieces: TS4 data and workspace
> files, data feed things, dongle emulators, etc.
>
> People seem to enjoy running their office/internet/whatever
> applications on W2k or XP, and if you must run Microsoft Windows with
> a connection to the internet, that's what you need for security.
> But that doesn't mean you can't have a separate machine dedicated
> to TS4.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
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