I Use NT 4 too and  :[
 I fully  AGREE with Ronald !!!!!!!!!!!
NT4 :eats RAM -is NOT so stable - and is NOT faster !

Ronald L. Parker ha scritto nel messaggio
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>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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