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Tony (Tony) wrote in <13joessvpjet7g4sc4a2ob3napvktcu3bj@4ax.com>:
>
>Dual processor support.
>Scalability.
>Native encryption.
>Stability.
>Speed.
>
>It would be a real waist to run my dual p3 500s, 512mb ram, 3  18.2
>gig U2W Seagate Barracudas on Win95.


Basically what he said.  

- more stable OS

- run more things at once without fear of performance or stability problems

- make better use of resources like ram

- some things are faster.  My network, disks and USB scanner run faster 
under Win2K

- Dual CPU support.  Multi-threaded apps run faster and don't affect other 
apps or the GUI nearly so much.  For example, I can decode binaries from 
newsgroups while playing a game, browsing the web, or encoding MP3s and or 
scanning images.  Under Win98 this would be a complete bust, with lots of 
thrashing and unresponsive gui/mouse.

- Scalability also relates to computer life span.  If you can use more ram 
and cpu's to improve performance, then upgrades will get you further before 
you are forced to buy a new system.  For the cost of a dual-cpu MB and an 
SMP capable OS, my original P2-400 system is now dual P2-400, and I'll 
upgrade to dual P3-700 when those chips are at the end of their cycle.  
This will be several times faster (with SMP) than the original system and 
should last me 3 years from the date I bought it.   Not bad when you 
consider how fast computers become obsolete.  SMP systems also make great, 
fast servers when it's no longer fast enough to be your main system.

I run Tyan Tiger 100, dual P2-400, 256MB ram, 2 x IBM 22GXP 22GB drives, 1 
Segate 9GB medalist pro, 1 Quatum Atlas II 9GB, Adaptec 2940 U2W, Creative 
V2 SLI, ATI Xpert 128, Sblive, ATI TV Tuner, 32X cdrom, 4x/8x panasonic 
CDR, DLT 4000 tape, Mustek 1200 CU USB scanner, Compaq Dual port 10/100 
ethernet.   Having room for expansion is nice, esp if the OS supports those 
devices.