Workstation 4.0

Original Message

Name: Tryan
Date: March 2, 2005 at 14:40:49 Pacific
Subject: Workstation 4.0
OS: NT 4.0
CPU/Ram: 400MHz 64MB

Comment:

Hello, I have an opportunity to buy some software for about $15.00. It's an unopened Windows NT 4.0 Workstation CD with COA. Is this suitable for running on an ordinary stand alone PC or laptop? Or is it some sort of business version for running on a network or something?
Windows 98SE
HP Pavillion
Celeron 533MHz
HDD 10GB + 4GB
64MB RAM
Antiquated & Poor Quality
Runs like a dream.

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Response Number 1

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: March 3, 2005 at 00:39:05 Pacific
Subject: Workstation 4.0

Reply: (edit)

Hi Tryan,
NT4 workstation is suitable for home, standalone use.
It's a llitle hard to get the hang of it.
It can be made to look much like w9x.
IT'S NOT.
If your main purpose is to learn something, you could hardly go wrong at that price.
If your main goal is to get up and running with the minmum of ado, use w98se.

M2

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Response Number 2

Name: bob819
Date: March 3, 2005 at 01:44:34 Pacific
Subject: Workstation 4.0

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I agree with the above BUT & it is a big BUT, NT4 has almost no PLP so you better have all the drivers at hand, particularly on a laptop & finally, NT4 was a an unpredictable heap till it got to SP6A so make sure you get the SP with it & finally it is a great learning tool for W2K & WXP but this is where the infamous BSOD originated! famously in one case leaving a nuclear propelled missile cruiser defenceless in the Arabian Gulf when the server kept crashing!
Have fun!
Regards.
Bob Mitchell.

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Response Number 3

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: March 3, 2005 at 02:05:54 Pacific
Subject: Workstation 4.0

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Bob,
"unpredictable heap"
I love it.
Guess I'm lucky the cruiser I was on had 'coffe grinder' computers.
With TUBES.
[For those of the British faith, those are valves.]
M2

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Response Number 4

Name: bob819
Date: March 3, 2005 at 02:59:34 Pacific
Subject: Workstation 4.0

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Hey, Mechanix2Go, when I served in the R.A.F we had ANALOGUE computers! notice we have no Forum for them!
Rgds.
Bob Mitchell.

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Response Number 5

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: March 3, 2005 at 03:04:17 Pacific
Subject: Workstation 4.0

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Bob,
Yeah, analog.
"coffee grinders"
Synchros, servos, resolvers, differential generators, 10 turn pots.
Pretty scary, ain't it?
Best,
M2

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Response Number 6

Name: Tryan
Date: March 3, 2005 at 13:48:11 Pacific
Subject: Workstation 4.0

Reply: (edit)

Thanks for the replies all - that pretty much decides it for me - I was going to use it so I could load legal software onto an old computer or an old laptop so I could re-sell it but I would most likely be selling to a beginner buying their first computer. I don't want to make it an unpleasant experience for them so I'll keep an eye out for Win98 insead.
Thanks heaps.
Tracey
Windows 98SE
HP Pavillion
Celeron 533MHz
HDD 10GB + 4GB
64MB RAM
Antiquated & Poor Quality
Runs like a dream.

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