From: Chris Hanson (cph_at_martigny.ai.mit.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 07 1997 - 14:56:34 EDT
From: "Victor Kress" <kress_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 97 10:07:25 +0500
Now that Microsoft of Borg has assimilated Macintosh, I am considering
accepting the invitable and migrating to NT from Warp 4. My decision
rests partially on whether I can convert all my machines, including my
trusty TP750. Is it possible to do a stripped down install of NT 4.0
on a 750 with 20 megs and a 540 meg disk? Will it be too slow to be
usable? Should I just wait until the 750 goes serial numbers up and I
am forced to upgrade hardware?
I think you will find NT very sluggish on this machine. I tried NT 4
on my 755C with 36 MB of RAM and found it to be painful. I think the
problem is the amount of RAM more than anything else -- NT wants lots
of it. My current feeling is that 64 MB is "enough" for NT.
As an alternative, Linux runs extremely well on these small machines;
it's the only thing I run on my 755C these days. But I suspect that
isn't a viable alternative for you, or you would have tried it
already.
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