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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 03:19:10 12/07/99

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On December 07, 1999 at 03:05:36, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>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.

You tried to boot your chessprogram with 64 mb hash too at a 128
mb machine?

this feature you describe NT has at 32mb computers too.
NT works at a 16 mb laptop actually. nt 4.0 sp5

However if you install it at a bigger machine, then i'm interested in:
how many hashtables can my program search with.

At NT 4.0 sp5 that's (without IE 4.0 integrated) exactly 100mb.
at win2000 rc2/rc3  that was 60 mb,
WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT OTHER 68 mb ?



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