Re: NT 4.0 on 760c w/24MB

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From: Christian Carey (ccarey_at_CapAccess.org)
Date: Tue Oct 01 1996 - 16:20:43 EDT


On Tuesday, 1st October 1996, Michael Klenner wrote:

> I can say from vast experience that NT really isn't worth running on
> anything with LESS than 32 Megs.

No argument here!

> I run NT 4.0 Workstation on a P-133 with 80 Megs of RAM and about 9 Gigs
> formatted NTFS. It's PLENTY fast.

I haven't seen it run on a Pentium with that much RAM, so I'll bow to your
first-hand experience.

> Bottom line: WinNT is a memory hog.

Again, total concurrence.

> When I decide to shoehorn a 32 Meg card into the 'Pad I'll think about
> putting NT on it, but not until then.

And so, getting back to the original query - what is the RAM capacity of a
760C? If the fellow wanted to have reasonably performing Windows NT, how
much would it cost him (approximately) to get the RAM to get the performance?

Christian.

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