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To: pae who wrote (217)	2/15/1998 9:57:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

>>thinking about NT versus waiting for W98.<< Waiting :{ probably pretty buggy at first. I go back and forth on the NT/ Win95/98 thing. I wandered over to our engineering department to get their thoughts. I talked to the guy who had been testing/using NT/ Win 95 and UNIX. They are pretty much moved into NT now. He said that Win 98 will be the last of that series before Microsoft moves us all to NT. He would like to put NT on his home machine but the old machine will not handle it. His reason is so he can learn the program better. He talked about needing more RAM to do the same thing because of the extra overhead. He cautioned to make sure all of your programs work in NT. He talked about having to set up an account on your computer. Somehow you need to give yourself permission to use your own machine. (big deal, Win95 is a pain in the a## in my opinion too.) The divide between NT and Win95 seems to be very distinct. If I go to any retail outlet I only see Win95. In the corporate environment with networking, NT seems to dominate. There seems to be a lot more 3rd party support for Win95 on the Internet. I have found several sites with info on Win95. Some for NT but not as much. For most home users Win95/98 is probably the best choice right now. It supports more of the multimedia types of applications. For example the Rainbow Runner? video add-on for the Millenium II card only runs in Win95. For a trading machine with multitasking my hunch is that NT would be a more stable application. I have had a lot of "hang-ups" in the Win95 environment and very few with NT. ( I also have more machines configured and running in Win95) I had a problem with NT and COM ports. If data was available at COM 1 or 2 on initial boot NT assumed a mouse. The application that used the COM port then did not work properly.(the application takes data from 10 serial ports) If you are looking into NT you might also ask which version. 3.51 or 4.0? One software developer indicated to me that they were ok with 3.51 but they were having trouble righting drivers for 4.0. Is there multimonitor support in both versions? There must be someone running Tradestation in NT. I would like to hear a little better than "Tradestation will run in NT". Perhaps one of our readers has used the program in both environments and could provide us some input. >>processor speed for recalculating charts as they update.<< My guess is your video card will play a big role here. How often does the screen redraw? Is the program looking at 1000 stocks and and looking for trends or does it just plot price data as it comes in for a half dozen stocks or so? >>bottlenecks for TS are the harddrive xfer rate<< I certainly don't know a lot about this but I would guess that cache would play a significant role here. I think of xfer rate in terms of saving large files. If you are saving small amounts of data frequently then I think a larger cache would benefit. Regards email zeuspaul@gte.net