In article <1e0q44INNom6@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, bsteiner@mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu (Brian W. Steiner) wrote the following:
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>I am running the Oct. beta of NT on a TriStar 486/50Mhz/8MbRAM/340MbHD EISA bus system with a Diamand Stealth (S3) video card. NT installed OK but I was __very__ disappointed with the performance of NT!!! So much so that
>I have switched back to WIN3.1 under DOS.
>-Screen redraws are very slow.
>-Mouse tracking is very jumpy (ie. you can tell the system is very over burdend).
>-Frequently run out of memory (although my swap file is 15Mb)
>-NT<-->LM 2.1 not fully supported (cannot "see" the LM file servers)
We've installed NT here (the latest beta) on a Gateway 2000 486/66
and it screams. Installation took place in about 2 hours and was fairly