Keith, you power freak! What you said about being careful about the video cards is true with regard to running two monitors. I had a little trouble in this area when I first switched over. As far as other components, any decent pentium will do. I'm running a pentium 166 with 32 megs of ram, and a 56k modem that is only running at 28.8 due to the lame provider where I live (only one around).
As far as running multiple screens, or any number of java applets together in a live data feed, this is more than enough. No choking at all in any regard. Even the 28.8 doesn't make a bit of difference. The only thing I've noticed is that running Netscape Navigator is far more stable than I.E. 4.....which keeps crashing at all the wrong times.
Now, when it comes to other applications, video or picture viewing etc, sure, a faster system would be great. But for the data feed, what I have is fine. (then again, it might be a good reason to throw out to my wife to upgrade! Sorry honey, we gotta get a pentium 400mhz or we're just going to lose our shirt trading! Now that excuse sounds better than wanting to run less choppy video downloads.....ooops honey....what video??? :)
On a different topic, anyone have instant messenger downloaded? If not, it's free over at the netscape sight. For those who don't know, it lets you see who is online at any time, and talk to them through a realtime chat window. The latest version also lets you hold the equivalent of a conference call. This might be good for our purposes....if for nothing else than to know others are out there! Good too to share realtime ideas/opinions. The program just hangs out on the side until someone "calls", and then you're up and talking as fast as you can type. For those who have it, my email is abc@georgian.net. Put me in your "buddy" list if you want and we'll test it out.
Kevin
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