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To: Typhoon who wrote (116)	10/28/1997 3:22:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Respond to of 1600

As for hardware devices bringing down the OS, I've never seen it happen. I've seen NT crash because it couldn't handle the insertion or removal of a hardware device. The worst crash I have seen was not related to a hardware change, and was not recoverable. The more I tried to fix the problem, the worse it got (and I had a real NT guru try to help me). I had to reinstall NT. Ouch. The worst NT crash I've had was because of a driver conflict with the firmware in my SCSI adapter upgrade. Wiped out a lot, but could recover using the Recovery Disk. I must say that NT is more stable (although ridiculously slow), but I had no idea what torture I would go through trying to get it to work with my EPROM programmer, Jaz drive, Zip drive, scanner, and and Wacom graphic tablet. I don't find NT slow at all. It needs a lot of resources, I agree, so I guess it depends on the machine. I have a PPro200 w/ 128MB of memory, and NT is much faster on this machine than Windows95. Granted this is not your average desktop machine. NT's biggest problem is the driver model (and lack of drivers). Zip/Jaz support is a good example of that. NT5 shares drivers with Windows98, so hopefully this will help that along.