re windows nt should i upgrade in article rrhe inn p ceres kingston ac uk ee d ceres kingston ac uk steve warner writes hi i am thinking of upgrading to the beta version of windows nt on a sx mhz mb hard disc can someone please give me there opion on such a setup for running nt and is the operating system likely to be better than windows or unix s steve ee d uk ac king ceres i ve been using windows nt tm since the october release and i have to say that the march release is really a big improvement windows nt tm is becomming usable there are a few things to consider before you make the leap though first for me at least is that you cannot get a full speed dos box what i mean is i cannot for instance run falcon or any other resourse intensive program in a dos box it absolutley crawls and my machine is a with a mb hd and mb ram if anyone knows how to get a fast dos box or full screen for that matter please let me know the second thing is there are still not many drivers around for stuff for instance my pas has been demoted to running as a sound blaster which is natively supported nice because mediavision hasn t produced drivers yet your disk should be large enough to keep an mb dos partition and give the rest over to windows nt tm the only thing is whenever you wanted to run windows programs you d have to reboot and log into windows nt tm instead of just typing win windows nt tm does seem to be much more stable than normal windows though it d be a good choice if you have the resources you should really have at least mb ram though one last thing modems work well enough but i have yet to get my fax card to work and i ve never heard of anyone else who did either it s only better than unix because it runs killer software out of the box whereas with unix there isn t the same availablity i guess it comes down to windows nt tm is not yet for the faint of heart it s still a beta but it s a very good beta scott reimert reimert mamacass etdesg trw com standard disclaimer redondo beach ca blah blah blah always store beer in a cool dark place
