Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Performance issues

[Robert martin]

I totally agree Trevor.  My post was mainly because I couldn't remember what the 'real' (as opposed to MS) minimum spec for a reasonable machine.  I remember when Win 95 came out a good machine was a P75 with 8mb (preferably 16mb), according to MS we could run on a 486 66 with 4mb or ram, sur it was possible but excruciatingly slow to do anything on :)     Rob Martin Software Engineer   phone 03 377 0495 fax 03 377 0496    web www.chreos.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Trevor Jones To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Performance issues Robert,     I guess that performance is always subjective, but in my time working with NT, I would back up the techie's comments.     Our first NT installation was on P75s with 24MB of RAM (and a Delphi 1 app talking to Interbase).  As you might expect, performance was less than stellar, but entirely adequate.     On the machine spec you have provided, NT should perform well.  If it doesn't, there probably needs to be more investigation.  Of course, this machine spec is woefully inadequate for XP.  I'm typing this on a PII 266 with 128 MB running Win2K, which until recently was my primary Delphi development machine.  It is slow, but not unacceptably so.  I've coded in MS C with the original Windows 3.0 SDK on a 25MHz 386 which allowed me to go for a coffee break when I hit the compile button, yet the Delphi environment on the really old Pentiums still wouldn't let me have more than a sip of coffee before it was ready to run.   HTH   Trevor   ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert martin To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 5:10 PM Subject: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Performance issues Hi   We have a user who is reporting dismal performance on the following     PII 266     128MB     Win NT4 sp6a   We mentioned that the machine may be a little light for NT but there techie said.   'My experiance with NT4, is that it quite happily runs on a pentium 100 with 64 mb ram, running standard apps, and mcafee virus scan.'   What do you think?     Rob Martin Software Engineer   phone 03 377 0495 fax 03 377 0496    web www.chreos.com