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Subject: Re: What will be the position of Windows in 3, 4 years in the future?

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 00:05:36 12/07/99

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On December 06, 1999 at 17:47:56, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>I think Christophe mentions a good point here. With the release of
>windows2000 m$ clearly is gonna buy linux some time to improve,
>as the beta releases of windows2000,
>I killed directly after i saw that they were eating over 60mb of my
>RAM... ...so basically needing machines with like 256mb at least...
>...they should buy some stocks in that area...

Rubbish.  A beta (Beta 3, IIRC) of W2k ran just as well on my machine (PII-300,
64 MB RAM) as NT 4 does.  I had just as much free memory available as I do now,
and everything ran just as fast as it does now.  Once in a while it would slow
down for a couple seconds - I suspect it was something to do with caching - but
other than that it ran nicely.
I am no longer using W2k, but it has nothing to do with performance.



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