CompuServe Messages

NT fast? You've *got* to be kidding! NT is slow and huge and still has the same horrible interface as Windows 3.1, at least when running on any normal machine. (We've got it running on a 50Mhz 486 system with graphics accelerator and 16 MB RAM. It takes a third of the 250M Hard drive, and *needs* all those 16 MB to run.) IMHO, If NT ever manages to get anywhere, it will be in a limited niche as a server for Windows 3.1 systems, at least for the first half of this decade. Ask me again in a year (assuming it's released by then, which I consider a 50/50 chance), and I may have changed some of these opinions, but as it stands now, the only reason we're even considering NT is because it's not too much of a stretch to keep our options open. NT *does* appear faster on the non-Intel platforms it's designed for (R4000 systems only, right now…), but considering that virtually nobody is producing those platforms (anyone remember ACE?) I don't see much future for it right now in that arena. –>Steve Bennett