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I have been aware for some time now, that there is no intrinsic difference
between NTS and NTW. I read at length the article "Technical Analysis by
Andrew Schulman" 9/6/96, and in light of the present discussion, it got me
laughing.
I remember when the allegations (proven true) that NTW and NTS were the
same code, but that MS was charging a lot more money for NTS. MS tried to
convince the world that they were different, but failed miserably. Now, we
are saying there is a real difference between NTW and NTS, in terms of
speed. Come on, who is kidding whom. If this were the case, MS would have
brought that up years ago. But they didn't. And the article does state it
found the researchers found no difference in performance between NTW and
NTS.
Or maybe there was a performance difference all along and MS did not want
to tell the world for fear of spawning threads like this one. . . :)
But in the meantime, I will continue to believe there is no performance
difference between NTS and NTW until convincingly proved otherwise. (Or is
this what MS wants me to believe after all? . . .
The truth is out there. . .
So I went looking at Mark Russinovich's web site, and I came across this
fascinating bit of information. Check it out at
http://www.sysinternals.com/tips.htm#Tuning, it's the last tip. I was
right, there is no difference between NTS and NTW, but they are setup
differently. If you want to make NTW work like NTS, you can edit the
registry, legally. This does not cause the NTW to suddenly become an NTS.
Kind regards,
Denys. . .
Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP America, Inc.
(800) 323-8863 (281) 288-7438 Fax: (281) 355-6879
denys at hicomp.com www.hicomp.com
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From: Michael L Gueterman [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 March, 1999 11:58 AM
To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] HP crackdown on resellers
I'm trying to drill this into my oldest son's head, but "just
because its printed in a newspaper, seen on TV, read
over the Internet (that's the important one here :) doesn't
mean its true".
Now, with that statement, I refer you to:
http://software.ora.com/news/news_item_frame.cfm?ID_News=60
This was the source of my statement regarding NTW vs NTS and
was originally published back in Sep. 96. I'm not saying that
the credentials of the researcher are 'unimpeachable', but
the research itself is interesting.
Regards,
Michael L Gueterman
Easy Does It Technologies
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-----Original Message-----
From: Denys Beauchemin [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 9:46 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP crackdown on resellers
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People can say whatever they want and it can either a), be incorrect or
overblown, b) be taken out of context, c) be quoted incorrectly or d) all
of the above. I do not know for sure that NTW and NTS are equivalent in
speed on the desktop, but I have never seen it stated with unimpeachable
authority that they are not. I am not really setup to either confirm or
infirm the theory, so I leave it as an exercise (in futility?) to someone
else. I just find it difficult to believe that as a corporate strategy, MS
would slow down NTW vis-a-vis NTS.
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