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Re: Windows 2000
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:09:22 GMT
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Michael Lachmann wrote:

[...SNIP...]
using NT. Either NT or W2000 are big Memory and CPU Hogs.
[...SNIP...]

That's somehow new for me, since at home (I'm using a PII 350 with 128MB-Ram)
programs like MLCad are definitly faster on NT than on 95 or 98. Sure the
display response and boot-time is shorter than on NT, but when it goes to
calculate things NT seems to be faster than anything else ... except Linux :-)
From friends I heared similar things.

You probably have a bad configuration on your Win95/98, possibly bad/slow/old
drivers, try to updated them.

The only advantage that you could have with NT is if you have more than one CPU.
Since Win95/98 can't (don't now how to) use more than one CPU.

And Linux is far better of course ! ;)

See ya
Rui Martins



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  Re: Windows 2000
 
(...) Ok. I'm running a PII 400 with 256mb ram, 12gb HD. I want 2000 cause of networking stuff and forced login when I get to college as well. NT doesn't support USB, which I need, and it also doesn't support a couple of other things (I forget which (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Windows 2000
 
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 5:09:22 -0600, Rui Martins wrote (in message <Pine.GSU.4.10.10007...0@is-sv>): (...) Rui, Actually, NT and 2000 have much better memory management that 95/98. 95 and 98 will most likely only perform better on lower end machines (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: Windows 2000
 
In lugnet.cad, Rui Manuel Silva Martins writes: <SNIP> (...) already (...) windows (...) That's somehow new for me, since at home (I'm using a PII 350 with 128MB-Ram) programs like MLCad are definitly faster on NT than on 95 or 98. Sure the display (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)

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