M$ brings the 'net to unix

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EVERYBODY SAVE THIS POST, I'm about to support and defend a M$ product.

On 09/02/98 at 01:03 PM, Tyler Nally <tnally@iquest.net> said:

>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.

NT isn't that bad, it is more stable than Win95.  It is M$ first entry
into the business OS market therefore is does deserve a break.  GIve it
20+ years and it will be fine.  NT needs 64MB to be functional, 96 to be
ok, 128+ to be nice.  Can you say resource hog?  

>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.

>From personal experiance,  Linux w/ 16meg on 486-33 == OS/2 w/ 16meg on
486-80 == Win95 w/16meg on P-133.  Linux w/ 32meg on P-166 is faster
than OS/2 on same box which is faster than Win95 on P-200 w/ 64meg.  And
Linux w/ 96meg on P-133 blows all  the above away.

>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.  

Do you realize you are giving the _edge_ not a clear cut blows it away
speed differance to a P2-266 w/ 128meg vs a P-133 w/ 40meg??  That is
SAD.  Imagine what would happen if you put linux on the P2-266.



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