Re: RE: OT: Windows 2000 features

2002-08-02 Thread David Brooks
Bill,I still have my "slide" from college if you need it :) Dave Begin Original Message From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" http://mail2web.com/ . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List.  To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit t

Re: OT: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Paul Franklin Stregevsky
I can speak to this. I just upgraded my older home PC from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 Professional. According to Microsoft's published requirements, my old hardware-a 230 MHz AMD chip with 160 MB of RAM--could just get by. I wiped my old OS clean and installed Windows 2000. Well, the PC wou

Re: OT: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Mishka
for Norton Utilities 3.x) In a nutshell, a "nice" MS-DOS stuff, that doesn't ask for hardware or "nonstandard" things like EMS and XMS (which is also hardware) will work. Everything else -- won't. Best, Mishka. > From: Fred > Subject: Re: OT: Windows 20

Re: OT: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Alan Chan
Can't answer all your questions but 2kPro was pretty slow on my P2-266 with PC66-320MB RAM and DMA33 hard drive. Some hardwares were not supported or not running at all even they claimed they should (parallel scanner, printer and Zip100). I just went back to 89SE on that machine. However, 2k is

Re: OT: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Mark Roberts
"Peifer, William [OCDUS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi folks, > >Sorry for the OT note, Or IT note, as the case may be ;-) >Just got a note from the powers that be here at work asking if any of us are >likely to have "issues" with a planned upgrade from Win 95 to Win 2k. I got upgraded fro

RE: OT: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Rubenstein, Bruce M (Bruce)
W2k has been the standard Windows OS at my company for quite some time. It is, to a great degree, 98 with a NT kernel. Looks and works like Windows 9.x, but is much more crash resistant. You won't have any trouble running old apps so long as you have enough memory: 128MB min. - This message is

RE: OT: Windows 2000 "features"

2002-08-01 Thread Peifer, William [OCDUS]
Hi folks, Thanks again to all for your many helpful comments on my Win2k questions. Very good to know your experiences with this. Regarding DOS, I think I'm on the same side of the fence as Fred. I've got a few ancient, but still useful, DOS routines that I use once in a while. The old QuickBAS