On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:10:43 +0600, David Ball wrote:
>I've heard that Win2000 will require as much in hardware upgrades over
>Win98 as Windows9: did over Win 3.XX. Does anyone have any information
>to confirm this?
>
>Thanks,
>
Here is a message from another mailinglist, the XFREEOS2 mailinglist;
I just had to relay my recent experiences to the group about me
beta-testing Win2000 for possible use in our company. This may very well
help us appreciate Warp better.
I had installed both the server and advanced server(on a 4 processor
Xeon machine). The server I installed on a 500Mhz uniprocessor machine
with 128MB and 192MB cache. Remember the Warp 3.0 days and did you ever
try running it on 8MB? That's exactly Win2000's level of performance.
The hard drive would not quit running. I was waiting for it to go ker
plunk from the heat. Well I reasoned ok they lied about the requirements
a bit(300Mhz and 64MB ram)so I upped the ram to 192MB and swap to an
amazing 512MB. Raising the swap from 386MB to 512MB finally allowed the
HD to stop in a reasonable amount of time after bootup. Opening Netscape
brings an immediate 'oh shit there goes the drive again' moving the
mouse also produces the same. If another app is opened it becomes
useless until the app having focus is done with any processing. The
amount of time it took for apps to open was excruciating. At this point
I felt as if this was all a cruel joke and I was being tortured. Well I
can go on and on but to achieve *almost* the same level of performance
of any generic Warp 4.0 desktop it took advanced server with 4 cpu's and
384MB ram with a 768MB swap file. Absolutely amazing.
Regards,
--
Ted Sikora
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://tsikora.tiac.net
Maybe this is something of an answer to the question.
Per B.
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