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I am running TS on Win NT and have been for quite some time. I'm
currently using TS 4.0 running on NT 4.0 service pack 1 (I've read too
many horror stories about service packs 2 & 3).
I, too, leave NT and TS running for five or six days uninterrupted and
have NEVER had TS bomb out with a GP or any other fault. I shut down
and reboot on the weekend, primarily to eliminate the consequences of
"memory leaks" (gradual increase in the size of the virtual-memory
requirement due to failure by someone - app or OS - to return memory to
the available pool when the app terminates). Also, although I routinely
have several other programs running concurrently with TS, I am careful
to run TS in its own, separate memory space.
Communication problems are most likely due to subtle incompatibilities
among the particular hardware devices on a particular system, their
corresponding drivers, and their particular configurations. I had to
buy a separate I/O card to get my system to work, not because I needed
another I/O port but because I needed a port on which I could configure
the IRQ and the interrupt address independently and which could use
higher IRQs.
Bottom line - NT is a VERY stable and dependable OS and handles almost
all of my old DOS programs very well (the only exceptions being some old
communications and backup programs - now discarded).
Carroll Slemaker
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