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Jackson Harris wrote:
> NT is definitely the way to go, especially since version 4.0...due out
> later this summer incorporates the WIN95 GUI
> you may need just a little more RAM for NT, but it will repay you for
> the investment many times over in improved stability
> get NT

  I've had NT installed for about 2 years.  I also have Win95 and Win 
for Workgroups installed.  The machine is a 133 Mhz Pentium, 32 megs
of ram, and a 2 GIG SCSI.  We use VC++ 4.1. I would also say that NT 
is more stable than Win95. However, twice this has happend:

Boot NT, checkdsk discovers a few crossed links, and fixes them
Next day (or lateron)
Boot NT, checkdisk discovers more bad files and DIRs.  It try's to
fix them and runs out of memory (this all happens on the Blue Screen
at bootup).
Boot NT, checkdsk discovers .... blah ... blah
Eventualy it will destroy the Windows\system32 dir rendering NT useless.

  A few things to note:
  We had this happen on 3 machines.  All 3 were using the latest
version (3.51) with service pack 3 installed.  It wasnt a virus (well
none that I know of) since we check any disks that go into the
machines, and very few ever do.
  None of the machines were using NTFS, all were FAT.
  We didnt use defrag or any utilities that could corrupt the drive
or screw up the long filenames.  In fact we never used any dos utilites
since we are aware of things like rename and delete screwing up long
filenames.

  We have no idea what the problem is/was.  It seems to have something
to do with very large partitions (> 1 GIG).  We tried using NTFS, and
after a while it still happened.

  Another note about NT.  It is far from crash proof.  While debugging
an app I was working on, I trashed NT by free'ing data that was in the
clipboard, and also embeded in another document with OLE.  Of course,
it was my fault, but I was new to OLE ;-)

  My opinion is if you dont have tons of ram (>= 32 MB) and a large
HD, use Win95.  No matter what you use, backup often cause both of
these O/S can trash your hard drive.
  
Troy