From: Nick Rushizky (nick_at_atlas.mis.mei.com)
Date: Tue Oct 01 1996 - 12:25:52 EDT
I'm giving serious thought to throwing in a new HD on my 760E, to get
a clean install for when I try installing NT 4.0, but since I've only got
24 M RAM, I checked out the price for another 16 M SIMM - I think
(do not quote me, I sell nothing..) that Unigen has 'em for $400 or so -
price is going back up (was $270-ish a few months back.)
It runs fast, real fast, with 24 M and 95, but I have NT 3.51 with 32
on my desktop, and that just sorta runs along, nothing to write home
about. This leads me to agree.. NT is a big old pig when it comes to
RAM, but it's also damn hard for the network / OS / me to make it
fall over and get the blue screen of death.
Pigs have their place in the world, it would seem..
> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 16:20:43 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Christian Carey <ccarey_at_CapAccess.org>
> Subject: Re: NT 4.0 on 760c w/24MB
> To: Michael Klenner <klennerm_at_is.nyu.edu>
> Cc: THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu
> 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.
> --
> Christian Carey (ccarey_at_CapAccess.ORG) +1 301 431 0053
>
>
Nick Rushizky ---> nick_at_atlas.mis.mei.com
Marquette Medical Systems
PC Support Help Desk
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