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To: xcr600 who wrote (7127)	3/5/2000 11:03:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (1) of 18137

DON'T USE WIN95/98! That's your first mistake. :) xcr600 wrote: "How do you get Win98 to recognize more than 128MB RAM" Anybody doing serious daytrading needs to upgrade to Windows NT. I'd be cautious on Win2000 at this point, though, especially if you are using RealTick III, which does not yet support Win2000. (Dunno for sure that it just won't work, but in any case, Townsend doesn't "support" it, when means in the least that they will tell you that you are on your own if you have trouble.) 95/98 is way to unstable to use in a "mission critical" application like day-trading. Under 95/98, it is possible for an application to crash the OS. Under NT/2000 that is MUCH less likely. (99% of the time, an application that would crash 85/98 will just crash itself on NT, leaving the OS and other applications unharmed.) And you can terminate a wayward application without re-booting the machine. The WORST thing to happen to a day-trader is to have to re-boot with open positions! In addtion, there is no 128MB problem (though I see little need for more than 128MB of RAM, unless you are doing INTENSIVE photo or video editing - something most day-traders won't need to do :) ). NT also handles high-speed Internet connections much better without any manual tweaking as is needed to optimize 95/98.

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