From:	"Chris Jones" <cj7 AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp
Date:	Tue, 15 Feb 2000 03:19:28 -0000
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> I played around with the late "windows 2000 professional" which is now NT5
> and all I can say is that it took so _looooong_ to install. And afterwards
> it crashed (this is to be expected) on the first boot.

Were you upgrading an existing installation? If so, that could cause
problems. I did a complete format of the disk and then installed Win2000,
and it works like a dream. It's fast and reliable, and one application
crashing doesn't bring down the whole system. One disadvantage is the
boot-up time, which takes quite a while, but it has the Hibernate mode,
where if you choose hibernate instead of Shut Down, the memory is written to
disk, and then it boots up in 15 seconds when you switch back on. Quite
impressive.

> Also there were a lot of problems with various hardware drivers (the
> SBLive is one ex) designed for NT4.0 which caused 2000 profeesional
> to give the blue screen of death :-(

Well the SB Live driver included with Win2000 works fine. It autodetected
all my hardware with no problems at all. (I was using build 2183 and now
2195, maybe you have an early beta?)

IMO, Win2000 is good value for money.

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