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To: GrnArrow who wrote (92)	2/1/1998 3:59:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (7) of 14778

Hard Drive ZP: the IBM review sounds good. Where can I compare with the Quantum hard drives? Mike: I'm going to assemble a trading computer running 4 monitors. I currently use Castle, BMI cable feed for charts, plus the internet and mIRC on one computer and 17" monitor. I'm currently doing this on a p133 and 32SDRAM. Cable feed lags. For multitasking, and running several monitors, I'm going with 128 SDRAM (as for now). Castle suggests 64 RAM just for the kill key, and as time goes on, all trading systems will become more sophisticated needing more RAM and higher speeds. Your not just building/buying a computer for now, but to be capable of running future software. Remember when 4Ram was in? Then 8RAM? 16RAM was overkill. That's ancient history. Now days, you can never have enough RAM. As for the sufficient speed of the CPU for streaming data (great question you asked), I plead ignorance, except that the answer may be the same as I have given you for the RAM. Intel 100mhz boards will only work with their future 400mHz chip soon to be released. Over kill??? S.W.

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