To answer your questions:
1. one (1)
2. Pentium 133Mhz (1 1/2 year old, need a faster one)
3. Pentium-II, at least 233Mhz, preferably faster to cover later
versions of trading s/w.
4. 32 Mb
5. 64 Mb, my system swap's like there is no other taks to be done.
6. Win95
7. Win 98 when it becomes stable (and available), because 98 will
support multiple screens directly.
8. Never use a Network application together with mission critical
(read trading) tasks. I recomment a PC with a Pentium-II 233 Mhz,
with 64 Mb Ram running Linux with IP maskerading (same as N.A.T.)
and 2 3Com PCI ehterlink card's, they can be bought cheap in a
5-pack, so you have also cards for the other trade sttions.
Linux can act as your fax/mail/print server, and the RedHat
distribution is easy to install, and does a much better job in
detecting h/w for plug and play. I have installed it from an
FTP server, NFS server, CDROM (SCSI and Parallel port) and ZIP
drive connected a parallel port.
For those who don't know Linux is FREEWARE, but you have to pay
a small fee for the distribution, it's well worth it.
Henk |
