On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Antioch wrote:
->I agree wholeheartedly. Windows 95/98/NT is such a memory hog, it blows
->my mind. What does Microsoft recommend....32 megs of RAM? Of course,
->today RAM is relatively cheap, so it's almost a moot point.
Remember, though, that MUD coding is a hobby (no matter how serious
some people take it); and to run Circle itself you only need 4mb (of
course, that's admittedly a bland, out-of-the-tar Circle). Requiring
someone to spend $100 on RAM upgrades so that they can run a slightly
modified Circle with a small simultaneous user count (10? 20?) ontop
of an OS is silly. It's a sad that an OS reaps more benefit from
hardware upgrades than actual programs.
Just when you thought research into micro-kernels was leading in the
right direction, the industry takes a leap backwards with Win95.
Certianly it will always require more space to have a GUI operating
system; but Win95 doesn't even look nice, and most Win95 "power users"
rely on the DOS shell. And organization of files and directories
certainly does not benefit from the drive-letter paradigm...especially
since programs insist on putting random files in C:\WINDOWS\, even
when you install on a different drive.
->My suggestion: Buy a hard drive with at least 1-2 gigs of space and about
If you are going to run Windows and you aren't using FAT32, then make
sure you partion large hard drives into relatively smaller drivers.
The block size used by the 16-bit FAT is unsuited for large hard
drives and results in a lot of wasted space. (On the other hand, Linux
affords you a choice of file system and even block size in some
cases).
Anyway, this isn't to knock Windows. Some of the above is my opinion
(e.g., "Win95 doesn't even look nice"), and the rest is the
unfortunate truth [or my interpretation of it]. There are some cases
where Windows blows Linux or most other UNIX OSes out of the water.
Windows has the majority of business applications (unless your
business is 3D rendering), for instance. But Win95, quite seriously,
does not make a good networking OS. NT is better, but it takes even
more resources; which means you have to a high-end server to even run
NT Server (5.0 beta, especially) properly.
Quick suggestion: watch what you quote. You had quotes trailing your
message.
-dak
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