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In article <4l4b39$ogc@host-3.cyberhighway.net>,
   laurin@cyberhighway.net (laurin keith davis) wrote:
>i am using 3.11 on a dx4-100 with 12meg ram and looking for a new OS.
>any tips? how much does NT cost?
>
>

First WinNT requires a minimum of 20mb.  With 20mb it will run, but will be 
slow.  For optimum use you'll need 32mb.

WinNT is *intended* for central-servers and *multi-user* systems, not 
single-user machines.  It does *not* have *full* backward-compatibility 
with 16bit applications in its present iteration.  Note, you can get a 
Win95 GUI for WinNT, or a Win3x GUI for that matter.  It also has the 
option of using HPFS, which will save hard drive space without compression.

Win95 is intended for single-user machines with *some* of the features for 
central-server operation (user profiles with user-names & user-passwords, 
etc.).  Optimum operation of Win95 occurs at 16mb and has much better 
backward-compatibility.  Also allows the use of long-filenames even though 
it uses the FAT system which will loose you some space on large hard 
drives.

NOTE:  This is why the consensus is that 1gig drives should be partitioned 
into 400-500mb partitions.  This gives you cluster size of 8kb vs. 32kb for 
1gig unpartitioned drive.

Hope this can help you make a decision.

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