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To: Dale J. who wrote (58717)6/24/1998 11:59:00 PM
From: rudedog  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Dale -
the workstation version of NT4 will actually boot in 8 megs. NT is a virtual memory model - only the memory manager and a few kernel pieces know or care how much physical memory you have. Performance suffers if the swap rate goes up - with a typical IDE drive, a page fault rate of 100 page / sec will slow things to a crawl. It is pretty simple to see how much memory one needs to support a normal environment - just watch page faults and add memory until you get down to an average of 30-40 pages / sec.

NT is more stable and faster than Win9X. The only disadvantage I have noticed is that some games and other programs which access the hardware directly will not run on NT since the OS protects hardware integrity through an abstraction layer. Also if you like plug and play (or plug and pray <g>) Win9X will detect more HW without assistance.

Steve's comments about security are important. Also, unlike Win9X, NT will run faster with more memory (Win9X shows almost no benefit for more than 64 megs under most usage models). Win9X memory management is very primitive. I would recommend at least 32 megs for NT (but that's also a practical minimum for Win9X). 64 is better for a user who likes to keep a lot of apps open. But as Steve pointed out, at today's prices it hardly matters - just go with 128 and skip the analysis. But be sure that your tag ram will cache more than 64 megs - a lot of the standard chipsets will not, and others need to be set to allocate for a larger memory size.

NT runs just fine on sub-1K machines, better than Win9X for most productivity uses.

Hope this helps...
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