Re: Oracle sucks on NT, was Re: 8.5 OPINION

(mac ng added back to headers, since Macs mentioned again.  Complete thread in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy)

Robin Quasebarth wrote:
>
> Nope, I am a California girl through and through.

And all this time I thought you were guy. :) Same confusion might've resulted if you were named Chris or Pat.  

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> > > I now have an HP Kayak with 256 RAM.
> >
> > Is that all you need for a Oracle development PC?
> > Gee, what were we thinking with only 64?
>
> Don't need that much. That is just how the Kayak came. The PO required 128 of RAM. I
> still have to fire up the AST (which not has 90 mgs of RAM) and it works just fine. I
> don't think I would trust 64 since the OS is such a pig. Have you ever compared how
> little RAM a Mac OS takes and it is so much more elegant and graceful?

MacOS? What does that have to do with anything we're talking about? Isn't that platform usually the last to get any new version of Oracle tools?

And MacOS can waste memory too. I was in a CompUSA this weekend and checked out a G3 store demo. It was running SoftWindows 98. Looked enough like the real thing, except I couldn't figure the key & mouse click combination to emulate a right button click. Tried to start online help, it said not enough memory. I clicked on "About this Computer", memory usage shows about 29MB(?!) for MacOS and 98 MB for SoftWindows 98(!), with virtual memory off (this thing had 128 MB physical RAM). 29MB for MacOS? Obviously too many extensions were being loaded.  

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> > But it's apparent from our exchange that we won't change each other's
> > minds. But if you judged Windows with same lattitude you show to
> > Dev 2K, then Windows isn't so bad, is it? What's an occasional
> > BSOD or a little memory mismanagement between friends, right?
> > Just a few edges to be smoothed out by Micro$oft, right?
>
> Except that Windows is supposed to be the OS....the foundation of it all. The OS should
> be the strongest feature to support the structure. rq

Even a *good* foundation would have a hard time withstanding Oracle's memory pile-driving and jackhammering.

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Eugene