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At 07:02 AM 3/8/97, you wrote: >Has anyone run Windows NT Workstation 4.0 or Windows >NT Server 4.0 on an IBM Thinkpad (particularly a 750 >with 20 MB RAM & 2 GB HD)? Advantages, disadvantages, >PCMCIA compatability, video chip support, sound chip >support, and installation advice would be appreciated. > > > > I have installed NT 4.0 (with SP 2) on a ThinkPad 755CX (P75, 40 MB, 810 MB HD). Not what you asked for exactly but ... I am really new to NT so I may not be the best one to answer your query but here goes: Advantages: Doesn't seem to crash as often as DOS/Win 3.1 but worse than Solaris x86 or OS/2. Networking works better than DOS/Win (ethernet with Dock II and dial-up PPP using built-in Mwave) and it is faster on the same hardware than OS/2 Warp Connect for things like ftp. Disadvantages: Not real fast, swaps a bit Crashes trying to run a DOS program that runs GPIB instruments (that program runs fine under Warp 3/4 or DOS/Win and should run under NT according to the vendor of the GPIB card who supplies NT drivers which include support for their PCMCIA GPIB card and drivers to run DOS GPIB apps under NT) - blue screen dumps Crashes unexplicably while running MS Office 95 (Excel/Word) but I'm new to them so ??? - blue screen No power management in NT - IBM supplies drivers for 755X/760 but I don't know about 750 Marginal PCMCIA support My IBM PCMCIA SCSI card not supported Sound/Video IBM supplied drivers for 3.51 and now 4.0 for Mwave Support for CX on the NT CD Installation I used a SCSI CD-ROM in a Dock II the 3C509B ethernet card - that worked fine. Note, the CX rarely crashes with OS/2 and with current patches for Solaris x86, it does NOT crash. (Not what you asked but it seems that the hardware is OK). I expect that you want as much RAM as possible, 20 will probably work but I expect you will see lots of swapping to that nice big disk. Good luck, Stuart F. Biggar Remote Sensing Group Optical Sciences Center University of Arizona Stuart.Biggar@opt-sci.arizona.edu Phone: 520-621-8168 Fax: 520-621-8292