COMPUTER SYSTEM
Posted By JOE SEALL on 2/21/2001 at 9:36 AM

Windows Millennium or Windows 2000 Professional? Which would be best for Locus?


Re: COMPUTER SYSTEM
Posted By C. Joseph Lynge on 2/21/2001 at 10:00 PM

Windows 2000 Pro any day of the week. ME is really just a greatly expanded version of the original DOS/Win 95, and with it comes the instability.

At work I'm in charge of 12 AutoCAD workstations with Land Desk R2, plus 10 other computers. The majority run Win98se and crash 2-5 times a day. The 4 that I put on NT 5.0(Win2000 Pro), 2 have had a minor crash once in the last month(only had to close and restart AutoCAD) and the other two have not crashed once in the last two months.

Needless to say I will be converting the rest to NT. People are begining to come up and request NT just so they can bypass the crashed drawing recovery drill. That is the whole reason for NT, stability, security, made for power hungry programs, etc...

One caveatte, NT does not like older scanners, or most all in one printer/fax/scanners. Check on the web with all your perriferal makers to see if they have updated drivers. This should lessen any headaches down the road.




Re: COMPUTER SYSTEM
Posted By David Cook on 2/23/2001 at 8:58 AM

I've got Windows 98, and like the message above, it crashes all the time.

I was told by Tech-guy that W98 is extremely RAM hungry. He has got 325 meg RAM!! and it only leaves him 2 meg left!

Apparently Windows 2000 fixes this problem.


Re: COMPUTER SYSTEM
Posted By J.D. Billings on 2/23/2001 at 10:39 PM

In response to Joe's original post regarding "which would be best for Locus": I run the Locus processor on Win98 with absolutely no problems. We have actually had very few problems with Acad14 and SurvCadd in Win98, but our drawing files rarely exceed 4 meg. But again, with regards to the Locus processor, I can't imagine problems on the higher versions of Windows platform. Maybe we're just not stressing out the Locus processor with large enough files though as we do mostly static work.

J.D. Billings



Re: COMPUTER SYSTEM
Posted By James Webb on 3/10/2001 at 1:40 PM

I don't know about W2000 but ME is the most stable platform from the 95 upgrade path. The post about 98SE forgets one thing. SE belongs in the recycle bin. It was the scariest upgrade I have ever put on a machine. If you are running any old dos programs be very careful about switching to the NT path. Some programs will not run under NT no matter what you try. And many haven't been upgraded to WIN because the user base is small. 98(not SE) and ME both operate the Locus Processor software quite well.

The post about Windows being a memory hog is quite true but all versions of windows that I have experienced tend to grab as much memory as possible. This began in 3.1 and continues today.

Jimbo