Re: Win2k, passport, and millennium?

[Rich Aldred <raldred@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:36 AM 7/14/2003 -0500, John Chambers wrote:
>Either w2k or XP pro will be fine. You will want a lot of ram 256mb+. The 
>only issue we have seen with the Passport app is, it is a 16-bit 
>application. Because of that is sometimes it  will crash the 16-bit 
>subsystem of the OS and may render the machine useless until it is rebooted.
>
> >>> mbelvadi@xxxxxxxxxx 07/12/03 10:37AM >>>
>Hello. We are about to upgrade some staff computers from WinNT and trying 
>to decide between Windows 2000 and XP Pro. Those stations use Millennium, 
>GUICat, and OCLC Passport. I was learning towards 2K, but I understand 
>from OCLC that there is a potential problem with running Passport on Win2K 
>with other programs.
>
>Can anyone share experiences, positive or negative, with running OCLC 
>Passport simultaneously with Millennium and Guicat on a Windows 2000 
>workstation? If you are doing it happily, how much RAM do you have? 
>Likewise for XP?

Don't forget that OCLC Passport is approaching the end of its life, and 
should be replaced.  Passport should not determine other software upgrades.


Rich Aldred
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