Re: New PC - What MS OS?

[bclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob Clark)]

NT by all means.  I have 98 and NT machines at work and home.  In my experience,
applications will misbehave in both OS', but they won't cause the NT boxes to
crash and burn.  The only real drawbacks to NT that I can find are:
1.  some older DOS apps that run in '98 won't run in NT.
2.  there are more security related things in the OS to contend with such as
logging on as administrator to perform hardware and software upgrades.

The fact that I only need to turn off my NT machines once every few weeks makes
me extremely happy.


Jeff Crosby wrote:

> In a couple of months, I should get the "opportunity" to get a new PC at
> work.  I use a PC for AS/400 access (CA/400), CODE/400, and MS Office
> Pro primarily.
>
> I could get that PC with either Win98 or NT Workstation 4.0.  My
> question is, which one should I get?  I have just a little experience
> with NT currently and should probably have more.  Will there be many
> issues I will run into with NT that I wouldn't have with Win98?  NT also
> has FTP server built in, which would be useful.
>
> Suggestions?  Comments?  Thanks.
>
> --
> -Jeff
>
> jlcrosby@fwi.com
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