Re: Which version of windows

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From: Bernard Peek
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:00

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In article <391957E5.5C5291FC@dunvegan1.demon.co.uk>, Paul Richards
(Pauldoo) <pauldoo@dunvegan1.demon.co.uk> writes
>Hi,
>I've been using solely Linux for ages now but unfortunately a part time
>job that I may get requires me to have some flavour of windows
>installed.  Which do you think would look best on my CV?  W2K, 95/98, or
>some kind of NT?
>
>I'd like to install all 3 just for the fun of it but I'll only be
>creating about a 500meg windows partition...  :)
>
>So far I think I'll install 2K or 95/98...  Most likely 2K.
>
>I've got fairly bog standard hardware so I don't see any driver problems
>with any of them:
> K6-III, 450MHz - fine
> G200 AGP - fine
> 2 * Voodoo2 - fine
> Serial mouse & modem - fine
> SB16 (don't slag) - fine
>
>
>So which version should it be?


NT4 is probably the best bet, with W2K as the alternative. W2K is nice
but has some real problems with even quite recent hardware. NT4, with
service-packs, is stable.



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Bernard Peek
bap@shrdlu.com
bap@shrdlu.co.uk
bap@shrdlu.org.uk

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