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May 1999, Week 1

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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 2 May 1999 21:20:49 +0200
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Joe advised:

>Overall, 32MB memory for W2K Workstation, 64 MB would be optimal.
 ...
>As for disk, a lot depends on what services are installed.  100-200MB of
>disk for the OS would be optimal, again depending on features and services.
 ...
>Processor?  MS says that a Pentium 166 is the minimum.  This is just not
>enough.  A Pentium 266 runs W3K Workstation nicely but with P-II 400's and
>P-III 500's out now, go for the current hardware.


which somehow reminded me of two unrelated postings quite some time ago:

>Subject: Re: Lanic Card for HP3000 Micro GX Required
 ...
>The 39 morphed into a 42 with the birth of V/E, the firmware upgrade
>and a 1 MB memory add on. (...) Wow! Gave us a GREAT performance
>improvement though. We were able to run 40 high demand users and
>5 printers on that box.


>Subject: Re: NS/VT Bandwidth Requirements
 ...
>All on an HP3000/932 with 200 users.


Couldn't resist to compare these to the single-user PC requirements ;-)

Lars

(ok ok, it will be friday in a few days, won't it? ;-)

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