Those bastards at Microsoft sold a billion dollars
worth of NT3.51 Server in 96 at $800 a pop and the only difference between
it and the Workstation ($385) is one setting in the registry .
Just to start off right , here's how :
All you have to do is change the WinNT string (double clicking the setting
will invoke the string editor ) to ServerNT .... in 3.51 thats it .... you
have turned your workstation into a server !
In 4.0 a message telling you that
you are bad appears , and the setting is returned to the original . There are only
two threads involved in this and I'm sure it can be hacked .
That's not a bad start , free advice is open for " Carnage "
There are a lot of Pentium IIs in the magazines these days , and the hype is that this
is the way to go for speed . It is true the clock speeds are impressive but this is deceptive .
A Pentium II is basicly a crippled Pentium Pro . The problem Intel had with the P_Pro was that
they could get the proccesor to run at speeds that the on-chip L2 cache (the P_Pro has an on-chip
L2 cache that runs at the same speed as the proccesor ) could not reach . The
Pentium II has an on-card cache that runs at half the proccesor speed , this solves the speed
problem (even a 300mhz P II has a cache running at 150mhz ).This is fine and because the P_Pro
is not a popular chip (except for servers) its price has become quite reasonable .
Here's the deal ; the 180 P_Pro overclocks easily to 233mhz and at that speed it beats up on
266mhz P IIs and is nearly as fast as a 300mhz P II ! Right now the P_Pro 180 is about $350
while the 266 P II is $1200 . So for about $650 you can have a 180 P_Pro and a motherboard ,
if you use the hard drive etc. from your computer you can put together a smokin' machine
for very little !
Copyright © 1997 C Carson