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Re: Windows 2000
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Date: 
Wed, 19 Jul 2000 05:10:46 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Ben Vaughan writes:

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> Marsbase is hosted on a 2000 server in my home and is
> down only when I take down.  The reliability is phenominal.  The speed is
> there as well.  However, Mladen is correct in saying that not all games run.
> Tim, if you're going to game, DO stick with Win9x.  And look to Windows
> Millenium when it's released, it'll do nicely for you.

Ben (& everyone) thanks for the pointers.  I'll do a little more research as I
have a week or so before I can borrow an external SCSI burner for the backup
job.  I think I'm leaning towards 2k though.  No, I'm not a gamer - and I
apologize in advance to my future roommate at college ;)

Is Millenium the home user version like 9x has been?  Or is it network-
oriented too like 2k??

>     Lastly, I can state with certainty that all the latest LEGO related
> software runs,and runs well on 2000.  I haven't run LDRAW/LEDIT in ages since
> I started using MLCad, but I can't see a reason why it wouldn't.

Great!

> Just my .02.  Gads, hope we don't have a flame war brewing.  Ick.  8)

Why would we?

Thanks!

-Tim



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  Re: Windows 2000
 
(...) Millennium is just a new win9x with some additional bells and whistles and will not have any "revolutionary" new things. I doubt the difference between win98 and millennium will be more than the difference between win95 and win98. Of course (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
  Re: Windows 2000
 
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:10:46 -0600, Tim Courtney wrote (in message <FxxIDy.7wF@lugnet.com>): (snip!) (...) Some folks can get *really* defensive of their favorite OS. That's all. (26 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  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 (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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