Whats faster: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, or Windows 3.1?
Since Clients & Profits is a multi-user relational database, throughput is the key to its performance. Since Windows XP, 2000 and NT have an optimized input/output system, they are the fastest platforms for running Clients & Profits. Internal testing shows that Windows XP and 2000 are superior platforms for Clients & Profits, and are the most highly recommended. Windows ME, Windows 98, and Windows 95 are virtually identical and not particularly quick, but are all far faster than Windows 3.1 (which is still used typically on a shop’s oldest, slowest PCs that aren’t worth upgrading). Many factors influence a system’s speed, such as the amount of RAM available to Clients & Profits. If Windows doesn’t have enough free RAM for Clients & Profits, it uses the hard disk as “virtual memory” instead. Since accessing the hard drive’s virtual memory is much slower than actual RAM, it can dramatically slow down Clients & Profits. That’s why you need 16mb of RAM to run Clients & Profits on both Wind
