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Strategies & Market Trends : DAYTRADING Fundamentals -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Craig Bartels who wrote (5390)	11/13/1999 2:32:00 PM
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I would just like to third the notion of moving your trading machines over to Windows NT. It is vastly more stable than Windows 98. I've moved everything over to NT/Workstation over the past six months except for the laptop, and it has been a huge improvement. I have separate NT machines running First Alert and Windows on Wallstreet off of a single real-time satellite feed (data coming in UDP over Ethernet) -- literally, I haven't had to restart either program, or either NT machine for over two months now!! This just DOES NOT HAPPEN with W98. For the past month I've experienced that with the most recent QCharts releases, I cannot run both Outlook 2000 (email+PIM) and QCharts at the same time on the W98 laptop. Either program is OK alone, but they will not run together for more than a few hours without eventually going into an ugly, hard lock-up. After major debugging attempts I finally decided to go with NT on the laptop as well -- it's going to be slower to boot, but should improve a lot on the stability. I'm moving to that new Dell Inspirion 7500 with NT pre-loaded, 500MHz Pentium/256Mb memory (as recommended by OZ, the man!). Even QCharts should run stably on that, although I'm finally, regretfully giving up on them, due to continuing headaches with getting reliable data throughout the trading day (mileage varies with different users/locations). Good trading, -Steve