Re: Speaking of Window NT

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From: Kris Hoffmeyer
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 20:08

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In article <1992Aug31.161704.17154@cis.ohio-state.edu> cantor@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu (scott eric cantor) writes:
>>According to a friend who's running Window NT beta, it is slow as hell...
>>(he equated it to Window 3.1 running on 286 with 1MB of RAM) And mind you,
>>he's running Window NT on a 486DX-50 with 32 MB RAM and 1.2 GIG HD...
>
>	I don't know what the heck your friend's doing, but I can practically
>guarantee you it's something wrong.  We have NT running on a Dell 483/33 with
>16 megs of RAM, and it's performance is certainly acceptable.  It took about
>20+ demo programs running at the same time before we noticed an appreciable
>CPU slowdown.  If you want slow, try OS/2 on a 4 meg 386.

Just a question...  What exactly is acceptable?  Especially considering
you're running on a 486/33?  Did you try running NT on a 4 meg 386?

Kris.
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Subject: Re: Speaking of Window NT
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