Author: Roberto Waldteufel
Date: 00:00:51 08/03/98
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On August 02, 1998 at 15:23:11, Komputer Korner wrote: >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 Hi KK 3000 bugs? I wonder if they have got them all yet? Maybe MS should go into the pest control business. Roberto
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