[Gllug] IA32? IA64? x86...

[Matthew Thompson]

On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 02:44 PM, John Winters wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 14:32, Jackson, Harry wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: John Winters [mailto:john at linuxemporium.co.uk]
>>> However much (or little) one may like it, there's no
>>> doubt that 2000 is a big improvement on NT4 in terms of stability.
>>
>> I would beg to differ here (only in my experience I have no actual 
>> stats on
>> which is more reliable). I have used NT for nearly two years here at 
>> work
>> and have had two blue screens. I installed 2000 last week and have had
>> around 15 BS's since then. Admittedly it was an upgrade over NT but 
>> it did
>> strike me as a bit odd that it is now very unstable but when the PC 
>> had NT
>> it was running merrily with no problems.
>
> I bow to your superior experience of 2000.  I have practically none 
> with
> 2000 but a painfully large amount with NT 4.  I *know* NT 4 wasn't
> stable.  I had been lead to believe that 2000 was better.

For IIS it is much more stable, basic file sharing and domain 
maintenance seem no difference here - same for backup and SQL server. I 
think the big issue for NT was the loads placed on it by IIS.

M at t :o)


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