At 12:28 PM 5/28/2004, Kim Elmore wrote:
>I seek the group's collective experience: are there any significant
>performance differences when running S-Plus 6.2 under Windows XP Pro vs.
>Windows 2000 Pro? For example, is S-Plus faster under XP Pro than under
>Windows 2000 Pro, or does it behave differently in any other way? As far as
>S-Plus is concerned, is there any reason to choose one windows OS over the
>other over the other?
All other things being equal - RAM, CPU, Video Card, Hard Drive, etc - my
experience (no benchmarks, just perception) is that Windows 2000 is
slightly faster. This is because Windows XP has more hardware requirements
for the OS footprint. If you have 1GB of RAM, a fast (> 2.6 GHz) CPU, a
7200 or 10,000 rpm hard drive, and at least 64 MB videoram, I doubt that
the differences will be noticeable.
HTH
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