RE: Re-inventing the wheel...

[REB.Barnett@xxxxxxx]

Sorry, I'm not old enough to properly know NT before SP3 ;-)

Ray Barnett.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 16 October 2000 13:55
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re-inventing the wheel...
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> I'm sorry but I disagree about the "always has been" part of
> Win NT's stability.
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> Between August '97 and September 2000 I was European IT
> Manager for BP Retail Engineering.
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> NT only really became stable with Service Pack 3!!!
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> That means that NT 4.0, NT 4.0 SP1 and NT 4.0 SP2 were unreliable.
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> W2k seems a lot more stable than the early releases of NT 4.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: REB.Barnett@xxxxxxx
> [mailto:REB.Barnett@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 16 October 2000 13:23
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re-inventing the wheel...
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> When you say Win 2000 is supposed to be more stable, more
> stable than what?
> In my experience Win 9x can be very flakey, but Windows NT is
> superb, and
> always has been.
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> My NT Workstation here gets a real bashing, and has crashed 2
> or 3 times in
> the past year (dodgy video card driver) of 9-5 working. My NT
> Server(s) at
> home run 24x7. One is also used as a desktop machine for
> image editing,
> development and surfing, which is pretty stressful for it (memory/cpu
> intensive). They only get re-booted every few months, mainly when I
> add/remove hardware or wifey switches the scanner off.
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