..on my old Tecra 8000 (mobile PII, MMX, 256m 100 RAM). Is there some reasonable explanation of this? Everything works on both installs.

Strange, after enjoying 2k for a while, I started getting that old NT feeling - as in, "This somehow just isn't right. It's slow, the display is slow, NTFS is slow, it swaps too much, it's just sluggish is a non-descript way". IOW, it's still NT deep down in its blackened heart.

256M? Lack of RAM??

All drivers passed the "Windows Update" test as well as the "inveterate tweaker" test (mine). Not that.

Performance as reported by good ol' NT Task Manager is fine. Low processor usage, not overcommitted.

My guess is that the PII is not the best host for 2k.

Not fragged. Haven't done enough with it since installing to frag it.

Too late in any case - after "that old NT feeling" returned, I speedily removed 2k.

2k runs fine on my Thinkpad, faster than 98 there.

That is seriously FUed, and for that reason alone I wash my hands of W2KWS.

Glad I made the right decision. Thanks GM!

XP is the Windows winner of the 3.1 camp and the steal-from-OS/2 camp - it's like two executives in a big battle, and when the time comes for the Big Promotion, who shows up but some shifty MBA.

In the course of time, over and over and over again I find myself on the side of the 3.1 camp - their stuff was/is simply better. I wish someone at Microsoft would read this.

Windows NT and all its offspring are ultimately shit. I'll be moving our servers to Linux next year - other than the ball-and-chain Great Pains accounting.

Try to guess how many times I've had to remove Symantec shit from a computer - try! It's a fucking ordeal - shit keeps popping up - I half expected to get spam reminding me how stupid I was to remove Norton Utility (singular) from a machine.

Yes, at one time it was Norton Utilities - two of them - sd and the one that issued ANSI.SYS commands. An essential utility in the days of EGA. What was it called? sa? Screen Attributes? White on blue on an IBM AT with an Enhanced Color Display was a state-of-the-art PC when I had one at work. Plus terminals to UNIX - and math to program - heaven :)

I also had a spiffy grey Wyse terminal. All I want for Christmas is a green VT! (Regressing even farther, the ultimate green-screen experience is still the high-persistence green phosphors of the original IBM Personal Computer Display. Once VGA rolled along, you could have secondary monochrome video card to hook up to the IBMPCD and run dual console-head, or as I did, run Windows 3.1 or OS/2 on the retrospectively crappy graphics monitor and have a DOS box open on the green screen. This was a great setup for debugging Borland C code with Turbo Debugger. The code would walk by on the green screen and the high persistence phosphors would leave trails of the instruction pointer - a kind of unintentional trippy smooth scrolling.)

Right! And the IBM was faultless - but the reddest red I ever remember seeing in those early days was on the Compaq Deskpro 386. Unfortunately the green was garish. The IBM equipment was always the best. Unlike HP, this is true today as well.

I was so lucky in the early PC days to have the best equipment to work with.