Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 02:59:39 04/05/01
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On April 05, 2001 at 03:24:37, David Rasmussen wrote: >On April 05, 2001 at 01:01:29, Jason Williamson wrote: > >>I use it as my operating system, but I don't recommend you using it UNLESS you >>need it. Ie you have 2 cpus, you need a strong networking OS, you need solid >>security and stability at the expense of capabiltiy and multimedia applications. >> >>basicly its ok for chess software (No true dos mode btw) but if you do anything >>involving multimedia, such as gaming....then I don't recommend it. >> >>JW > >Windows2000 is fine for multimedia and gaming. It supports the directX >technologies perfectly, and I have experienced to performance loss whatsoever in >these kinds of applications. The only thing that can be significantly slower is >disk access, and only of you're using NTFS. Even then it isn't a problem. I play >all sorts of games on a slow Celeron 450 MHz with an old ASUS3400 TNT video >card, and everything is smooth. Unlike Windows NT 4.0, Windows2000 works fine in >these cases, IMO. And for chess, I certainly don't see a problem. As I do, but in general, most home users have no need for Win2k. JW
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