RE: Re-inventing the wheel...

["Brown, Andy [Infrastructure]" <andyb@xxxxxxx>]

There's a school of thought with NT4 that you should only ever trust the
odd-numbered service packs!

SP1 was fine, SP2 was a unmitigated disaster, SP3 was fine, didn't touch
SP4
with a barge pole, SP5 is ok, SP6 had issues day one but MS re-released it
as SP6a which has really confused me now as I'm not sure if that counts as
odd!

Andy

-----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...


I'm sorry but I disagree about the "always has been" part of Win
NT's
stability.

Between August '97 and September 2000 I was European IT Manager for BP
Retail Engineering.

NT only really became stable with Service Pack 3!!!

That means that NT 4.0, NT 4.0 SP1 and NT 4.0 SP2 were unreliable.

W2k seems a lot more stable than the early releases of NT 4.

-----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...


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.

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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