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Re: NT on 750?
At 10:07 AM 8/7/97 +0500, Victor Kress wrote:
>Now that Microsoft of Borg has assimilated Macintosh, I am considering
>accepting the invitable and migrating to NT from Warp 4. My decision
>rests partially on whether I can convert all my machines, including my
>trusty TP750. Is it possible to do a stripped down install of NT 4.0
>on a 750 with 20 megs and a 540 meg disk? Will it be too slow to be
>usable? Should I just wait until the 750 goes serial numbers up and I
>am forced to upgrade hardware?
Just my opinion of course, but I wouldn't put NT on my 560 with 40 MB of
RAM and a 2.1 GB HD, let alone on a 750 with 20 MB RAM (I used to own a 750C).
Just WAY too much of a memory & general resource hog. Running it on
anything less than a Pentium is sort of iffy, but more
importantly--anything less than 32 to 48 MB of RAM? I don't think its a
great idea.
I had NT 4.0 running on a Pentium Pro 200 MHz with 96 MB of RAM--that
seemed to work very well.
But I wouldn't do anything more than Win 95 on a 750.
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