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To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (806)	6/15/1998 8:01:00 AM
From: steve goldman	Respond to of 3216

I have a couple of freinds who trade from home, etc., and they are vey happy with Windows NT workstation. Similar to Win95, NT 4.0 workstation does have excellent (better than 95) networking, filing and print sharing capabilities. Its a cheap o/s, i think a $100 or so upgrade. Very fast when you get 48 or more ram in it and much better with stable, fast internet connections. They were seeing a 30% improvement over win95 with transmission times. A few downsides: not pnp, although sound cards only thing that really cuases pnp problems, modems- no prob, get one with jumpers, hard configure it, no problem, ISDN adapter - work much better in nt. A cheap $60 hub and a couple of network cards and you can string together any number of pcs, get a cheap Proxy software and they can all share the ISP connection. We use NT straight through in our offices here, no unix at this point. Great stuff! -Steve