Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:24:55 12/07/99
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On December 07, 1999 at 03:09:20, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>On December 07, 1999 at 00:23:40, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>I guess W2000 will take something like 400 to 600Mb?
>
>Yeah. It is a bit heavy on the disk-space. :(
>
>>With W95B, 16Mb of memory is the minimum (well I run it on a 5Mb computer, but
>>it's really slow). With W98, I noticed 32Mb was the minimum.
>
>Blegh. It runs just fine with 16MB, if things are configured properly.
The problem is not the smallest amount of RAM needed to run the thing. The
problem is the less that is acceptable to run it smoothly.
I have personally verified on my computer that with 32Mb W95B was OK, and when I
installed W98, I had to install an additional 32Mb RAM module to get the same
reactivity.
This is a subjective matter, but that's what happened to me.
Then, when I discarded W98 and reinstalled W95B on the same computer, I was
astounded by the speed difference. So I can say I have witnessed the difference
2 times. When I switched from W95B to W98, then when I switched back from W98 to
W95B.
>>It sounds logical that 64Mb is the minimum for W2000.
>
>I suspect it may work on a 32MB machine, though it will be somewhat slower, of
>course. I ran W2k Beta on my PII-300, 64MB machine, and it ran just as quickly
>as NT4(SP6), which is faster than Win9x on my machine.
That's interesting, I'll try.
However, this reminds me of the claims I have heard when W98 has been released.
Microsoft said it was faster than W95. Rubbish, as usual.
>>I bet W2000 on a 450MHz computer is as slow as W95B on a 100MHz computer.
>
>It will be much faster than W95B on 100MHz.
>
>>I bet that to do simple word processing tasks on W2000 you need at least a
>>450MHz computer equipped with 128Mb of RAM.
>
>Blegh. Read above (and in my other post).
You think it's a joke? We'll see. Of course, on W2000 you'll run Office2000 (for
some reasons I don't understand Office97 will be judged as unacceptable on this
system, and people will install Office2000).
I bet that W2000+Office2000 will not run at an acceptable speed on a 64Mb
computer.
Christophe
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