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Re: NT - boot.ini

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From: John Bennett
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <VA.00000356.020c0d48@gategart>, Chris Wilson
<chris@gategart.u-net.com> writes
>NT is a Microsoft Operating System, visually very similar to Windows 
>3.** but it is a true 32 bit system.As easy to use as "ordinary" 
>windows, and as stable and secure as Unix.Needs at least 16 megs of 
>RAM, but processor speed is not that critical.It suddenly became 
>popular for Internet connectivity when a mag featured it on a cover 
>disk.
>  Subscribe to one of the NT news groups, and read up on it.I have used 
>it for 18 months, and it has <never> so much as wobbled, let alone 
>crashed.You can run nearly any 16 bit ordinary windows app under it,and 
>also all true 95 applications.I love it...!
>  
Thanks.  I would give it a try but I only have 8 Megs (twice what
Windows 3.11 says I need).    Why does it need as much as 16Megs to run?

John  
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John Bennett
Cheddar      **To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive** 
Somerset UK                 (Robert Louis Stevenson)   
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From: John Bennett <john@johnpb.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: NT - boot.ini
Date: 1996/04/07
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