Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 12:23:11 08/02/98
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On July 31, 1998 at 09:46:57, Torstein Hall wrote: >On July 31, 1998 at 08:27:50, Komputer Korner wrote: > >>On July 30, 1998 at 12:58:39, Torstein Hall wrote: >> >>>I have run Win 98 for nearly two weaks now and it have kept on running like a >>>clockwork for two weaks now. And I have used it for games, chess, wordprosesing, >>>drawing etc. Perhaps its the best bug fix I ever paid for! >>>( Win 95 used to crash about once every week or so. ) >>> >>>Torstein >> >> >>I agree that WIN 95 crashes a lot, but it has been unfairly maligned about its >>virtual cache and RAM grabbing. If you have enough RAM you will see that there >>is no difference between WIN 95 and WIN NT in the anount of RAM that is grabbed >>for the virtual cache on the same machine. I have a dual boot setup and both >>operating systems grab about 20 Mb of RAM for the virtual cache (lots more of >>the hard disk also). The problems everybody has been reporting are because of >>the small RAM they are using. For chess programs you need at least 128 Mb of RAM >>and then you can load 64Mb of hash tables ( up to 88-90Mb if the program >>allocates this amount). >>-- >>Komputer Korner > >Do not misunderstand me, I'm probably one of the few persons in the world who >really liked using Win 95. Even with only 48MB :) But win 98 is in my view a >super bugfix, it makes everything much more stable. ( and a bit faster and a bit >more convinient. ) And you can still use more or less every program ever made >for the x86, whish I belive gives you NT users a lot more problems! > >How are you doing with your NT and Chessbase? Did the service pack help? >..and by the way. SP4 is on its way! > >Torstein As you can see from another post, I am still having problems (translates to can't) using ONLINE Upgrade with CB 7 on WIN NT 4. I tried installing all 3 in different orders (WIN NT4 SP3, IE4 SP1, and CB 7 to no avail. I agree that WIN 98 is much better than WIN 95 (even though I don't have WIN 98) because Microsoft themselves admitting to fixing 3000 bugs in WIN 95. -- Komputer Korner
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