M$ brings the 'net to unix

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At 09:44 AM 9/2/98 -0800, Bro Mike Endsley wrote:

>> IBM goofed with OS/2.  Prime example of bad marketing.

>Yes, it was bad marketing, but the OS beats anything that M$ has! BTW- I use NT
>at work, and I can't believe how often it crashes! They finally gave us 2
>machines just so we can do our morning reports and company email!

Here at work, my HP Vectra VL system 7 with a Pentium II - 266MHz was a
kind of a doggy machine whith only 32 MB of memory.  Two days ago, it received
a boost of memory up to 128 MB.  MAN!  It's an incredibly fast machine now.
Didn't think WinNT 4.0 had it in it.

The worse thing about it, is that I know it's a memory intensive process 
laden machine with WinNT 4.0 workstation on it.  When it had just 32 MB
of RAM, the Linux machine w/ a Pentium 133 MHz HP Vectra VL Series 4 
(40 MB RAM) was equally as fast (if not faster) as the NT4.0 machine with 
only 32 MB of RAM.

Now I'd have to give the edge to the WinNT 4.0 machine because it has a little
more physical RAM and virtual memory (112 MB) ... for a total of 240 MB of
memory -whereas- the Linux machine has a total of about 168 MB of memory
(RAM and swap space).  Big difference of available memory on both.  

Of the two machines... the Linux machine is my current favorite as it's
way more configurable and is receptive to the way I want to develop things
on it for work.  I can write things on it, and it'll directly tranfer to
the bigger Sun Ultra's at iquest.net that run mcp.com applications.  I can't
always do the same with software written on the WinNT 4.0 machine.

Bro Tyler
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