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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (4601)	1/2/1999 8:24:00 PM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Sean, your post made me bust out laughing out loud. :) You hit the nail right on the head. I agree 100%. You should have said "Win 95/98 is wholly unacceptable (at this time)" NT is the only way to go. Thanks Dan

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (4601)	1/2/1999 9:21:00 PM
From: funk	Respond to of 14778

It is no accident that I get great Traceroute's. I took the trouble to learn exactly the best way to get throughput between the quote machines and my home. The provider is S&P Comstock. The machines are TAL's. RealTick III's daily charts and Level II are both resource intensive in a hyper fast stock. I believe the CPU/RAM/video card is the current bottle neck. I will post the outcome one way or the other. As far as rebooting, when Real Tick III screws up now, I do not have to reboot the system software. Just the RT III. No rebooting during trading is not acceptable. However rebooting during trading hours will be a rarity. imo funk Thanks for the input, Sean, I am learning lots of good stuff on this thread.

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (4601)	1/3/1999 12:14:00 AM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Testimony (FWIW): I have a very reliable and stable cable internet connection and a not-too-quick computer. A fast-trading stock is able to overwhelm cpu capacity, as I monitor it on Win95 "System Monitor". The screen image will fade and keyboard and mouse inputs won't get there. System Monitor also shows plenty of "Free Memory". I used to run the same machine with a dialup connection and the symptoms of the connection not keeping up are much different. Level II and T/S become out-of-whack with Level I, it's hard to know exactly which one is right, especially as you would rather believe the one that is wrong <g>.