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To: Richard Estes who wrote (6365)	9/6/1998 2:40:00 PM
From: Bob Jagow	Respond to of 11149

The fascination of win95 for many, Richard, is the opening sceen sounds; their enjoyment is heightened by their frequent reboots;) All of the current win9x programs were once supposed to run on NT in order to get the logo but the little softies backed off. If you check Tucows you'll see that most freeware/shareware is written for NT also. Bob

To: Richard Estes who wrote (6365)	9/6/1998 4:02:00 PM
From: bdog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11149

Richard! "I love not having problems. " NO WAY! Are you serious? I want your machine. It must be the mother of all! >g< Or you are a hell of a software/hardware guru! I had the least problems in dos, I could fix them too! (also had to read the least amount of books) More trouble came with each new release of windows. ( and more blasted books) Trouble was, the software I wanted always required an OS upgrade, hmmmm, sounds like a money making machine to me. It once took me 2+ weeks to install a photo imaging workstation for a friend. ( ya know, a whole bunch of stuff that is supposed to work all daisy chained together) All those bad tastes in my mouth have left me pretty much gun shy of installing anything. Well... I'm happy for ya! Somebody has got to have the perfect machine! bdog

To: Richard Estes who wrote (6365)	9/7/1998 12:27:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 11149

keep hearing all your problems <g>. When they write programs for NT, I will go there. But I love not having problems. Most software these days except 95 system utilities and some games run well under NT. Most all 16 bit software I have seen runs better under NT. You have good luck with your machine and I beleive you do. Your dell has good components and driver support. 95/98 is a toss up I prefer 95. NT IS MUCH MORE STABLE THAN EITHER. I have been using both on hundreds of computers since they have been available. NT has far less problems than 3.1/95/98. Most of the time when an application dies its easily rectified with task manager. NT doesn't just hang or require rebooting to regain system stability. It is vulnernable to another type of exception although these all technically MS's fault. unix doesn't have these problems. I do have dozens and dozens of clients running 95 fairly stabling only requiring reboots 1 or twice a week using fairly limited # of subsets of applications. Office defintely seems to cause the most problems here (They use office 90% of the time though). My roomate randy is a network administator has a long list of fatal office bugs that require reboot under 95. My clients NT workstations machines selomly every require reboot. Generally one every 6 months. I have seen plenty of sophisticated users have a much wider variety of problems though. On my lan here with 4 95 machines I can't use one all day and not have a crash. As far as bells and whistles NT has all the latest visual and multimedia support. games are the only real issue IMO. Your dell PII 300 will run NT very well. I have had many skeptical clients and friends who I have steared toward NT and not one of them has wanted to go back. something to ponder. You must understand your statistical significance as one user is just that. 1 User. There are many different folks out there what lots of different problems. Myself and others work with hundreds of computers of various platforms, have lots of friends in the businees, and have spent a lot of our lives in the study of computers and use this to base our opionions. Computer Enginnering and computer science fascinating but complex topics. You could open a whole universe at understanding if you applied some time to understanding how computers work and how people program them. What I recommend to many folks is to take class or two on basic computer archecture or intro to programming at their local community college. Here in RTP you can take a twice week class for six weeks for $80. They teach C, Pascal, Basic, Access, Word, Excel and lots of useful introductory material. Books are always a good idea. I read on average 2 computer books a month for fun on everything from Programming, Applications, Theory, etc. Sean