Steve,
I won't comment on W98 or Win NT since they both
have their problems. But I do know that ME is not a
network ready OS. Originally ME had all networking
capabilities stripped out. It is very difficult to work
with on a network. It is consumer grade software.
On Thu,
20 Sep 2001 11:28:05 +0100 Steven Hoggan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd appreciate a general opinion from those that have experience of
> either/both as to a preference for one or the other.
>
> My company is NT server-based and is likely to stay that way for a while
> yet.
>
> I am getting slowly (well, not so slowly) more hacked off at the problems I
> seem to have with my WinME machine. (Generally to do with memory leakage it
> would appear). The machine just starts to grind to a halt after a
> continuous period of usage (that usage is within a single day), running
> Rbase 4.5++, RBW6.5+ and Exchange client 5.0.
>
> I had been told that WinME was the 'finished' version of Win98, and as such
> have retained all of my Win98 settings, so I don't think it's an obvious
> memory/application setup problem. Any tips, however, are greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Typically, my next (workstation) purchase will be a P4 1.5GHz machine with
> 256MB of RAM, and the usual other components.
>
>
> So, in terms of performance and stability
>
> W98/ME or WinNT?
>
> I appreciate this is off-topic, so if all responses could be directed to my
> home account, I'd appreciate it. That's the one below.
>
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>
> Many thanks
>
> Steven
>
>
>
>
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