From: cjjohans AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi (Carl J R Johansson) Subject: Re: (gnu-win32) Re: NT demands (was: Default linker output filename) 27 Nov 1996 13:28:38 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: cjjohans AT vesuri DOT Helsinki DOT FI Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <329B9F21.11F1@cell.cinvestav.mx> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Heinz Hemken wrote: > > Well, not everyone can afford NT. I still have more hard drive > > activity than I like with 48 Mb, as opposed to 24 Mb with W95. > > I run NT 3.51 workstation on a Dell 486/66 machine with 16 Mb RAM & ~750 > Mb HD. I can run a couple of large apps at a time {PowerPoint | MSWord | > Visual Cafe | Netscape Navigator/Mail | Supercede} with an open net > connection without any major problems (though occasionally when I > shutdown it gets lost). I don't have gcc on this machine, but I doubt > I'd have major problems running it. Swapping CAN get heavy, though. > Well, you obviously have lower demands than I do. I ideally want minimal or no swapping, that way the lifetime of the HD ought to be extended a bit. > NT as memory/disk hog is kind of an overhyped fact. Run W95 on 8 Mb RAM > and see how far you can get. I did that for half a year, in the end I got smart and used a faster disk and permanent swapfile for swapping. When I shortly afterwards upgraded to 16 Mb (without these optimizations) I didn't notice a big speed difference (but yes a swapping difference). NT 3.51 WS with 24 or 48 Mb of RAM should > be even better, though I've heard people claim it runs poorly with > 16 > Mb (sounds crazy to me). > NT 4.0 with 24 Mb felt closer to W95 with 8 Mb than anything else. It _could_ be that I (instinctively) used multitasking more carefully on W95, so maybe this comparison is not quite accurate (but now I can happily push it as far as I want :) ). Maybe I also got used to the breeze of W95/24 Mb, and can't recall the 8 Mb days so well anymore. BTW, I don't think this mailing list is intended for OS wars, which this appears to develop into (isn't this effort all about bridging such differences?). cj - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".