Glad to hear this rebuttal in the debate.


"Ronald L. Parker" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:39:01 +1000, "Lance Birch"
> <zon### [at] satcomnetau> wrote:
> 
> >NT is so much faster than Win 95/98 that it isn't funny!!!
> 
> That is a ridiculous statement.  In fact, unless you have an obscene
> amount of memory, NT is much slower because it eats so much memory
> just standing still.  For example, my current installation of NT5
> eats up 64M at boot time.  Even when I upgraded to 128M, it's no
> faster than 98.
> 
> >NT is a good power Operating System.  It's lucky that Microsoft have finally
> >come to their senses in dropping the 95/98 series and going to Windows 2000
> >(aka NT 6.0).
> 
> NT 5.0.  And once you've tried NT, you'll wish you had 98 back.  Trust
> me; I regularly use and write software for both, and 98 boots much
> more quickly and uses far less memory.  As for availablility of
> drivers for your weird hardware, better use Linux instead.
> 
> >I've never run POV-Ray under NT, but I'm sure that it would have speed
> >improvements doing so.
> 
> Nope.  None.  In fact, because of the swapping thing, it will run
> slower on moderately large scenes unless you throw memory at it.
> POV-Ray is mainly dependent on FPU speed; the operating system has
> almost no effect on rendering speed (especially if you render with the
> display off.)
> 
> NT really is a crappy OS.  It is not suitable for desktops, and the
> fact that MS is pushing it as the next desktop OS is proof of just
> how much they care about money and how little they care about users.
> It's also not suitable for servers, because it crashes so often and
> eats so many resources when idle.  So of what use IS NT?  Well, it
> makes MS, Intel, and Micron a whole heap of money.  Isn't that enough?

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