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To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (1198)	6/8/1998 2:11:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) of 14778

1. Couple of comments here. PCI Nic's generally DMA and busmaster. ISA NIC's generally use polled IO, some use DMA, even fewer busmaster. Get a PCI NIC. 2. Windows 98 vs. NT. Are you playing games or doing work. If the answer is doing work there is NO choice. NT is the only solution. 98 is better than 95 but still not as stable as NT. 3. I agree with Dave and would buy 2 or 3 systems instead of this multi-monitor beast your are looking at. Spots or anybody else do you know if when running Win NT and a dual processor motherboard if you can control which programs run on which processor? That is can you have all of the web browsers and mIRC channels run on one CPU and all of the programs you use for executing a trade run on the other CPU? No this is done dynamically by the kernal. There is a single process blocked queue. Both processors are feed off this queue. Of course, affinity is used to maintain performance. There are numerous affintity bugs with NT. (Its not Solaris). Sean

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