> You must understand that newer releases of NT run faster and on less 
ardwar
> Because of heavy complaints about its performance, the internal 
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> NT has changed such that a certain amount of robustness has been traded off 
> increased performance.  Whether this is good or bad is a different issue, 
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> the fact is that the decision was made and for clear reasons. 
> 
> Almost all NT software requires at least 3.5 to run at all, and no one uses 
> for anything.  There are a fair number of places still using 3.5 because 
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> did not choose to migrate to 4.0, especially in the case of network servers
> where the user interface was essentially irrelevant.  However, 3.1 was so
> universally reviled that anyone who could was eager to upgrade to 3.5.
 I was juse seeing what I got a hold of was worth installing. 
> The purpose of this echo is to discuss networking, not operating systems. 
> However, I can't imagine that you would be happy with the results of trying 
> run NT -- any version, let alone the slowest (3.1) -- on a 33 MHz 486.  
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> machine would be tolerable under OS/2 if you had at least 16 MB, or under 
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> if you had at least 8 MB, but not under NT.
>  
 
 I was interested in the network aspects of the programs. 
 Rick
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