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On Thu, 07 Aug 1997 14:16:00 -0700, Randal Whittle wrote: >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. > > >------- >Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu (213) 740-7775 >Director, Electronic Commerce Program >Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California > I said forget it to NT when I was promised better multitasking and all that other marketing crap. I went to OS/2 instead because for only 16 MB on that "old" Pentium server, it ran way better. And no, I can't afford another RAM upgrade right now, don't ask why, unless you have cheap RAM. Paul Regards, Paul Khoury pkhoury@earthlink.net