By @Macarlo

I tested the Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 4 on Internet works. The performance is the best I can see in the last months since October 1998. I tested OS/2 Warp, Linux, Windows98 and Windows NT 4.0. In all of this Operating Systems I used StarOffice 5.0 Personal Edition (I'm registered user for all platforms). During months I made comparative tests and my conclusion is that with StarOffice the best platform is NT.

I just installed Service Pack 4 (sp4i386.exe, 31,2MB). Today I tested my NT 4.0 running at the same time StarOffice, Opera 3.60b3 with six HTML pages loaded at the same time; Neoplanet 2.0 + GetRight 3.3.3 downloading the new drive for Iomega ZIP for NT; FTP command line embedded in File Commander uploading dozens archives to Geocities; Boxer and other apps, totalizing 31 processes. My CPU usage is only 5 per cent! I'm working on Windows NT resident in FAT partition continuously defragmented by Diskeeper Lite from Executive Software (http:www.execsoft.com), a freeware full functional. I'm using my pagefile in a separate partition to prevent any problems with the defragment process. Day after day, week after week I worked with StarOffice on NT in this conditions and any problem I have here. No crashes, no troubleshooting, no freezes, no StarOffice running errors!

In all other platforms I tested StarOffice it was suicided several times, including Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3. Note that StarOffice is optimized for Windows NT and no excessive RAM is loaded during works. Running StarOffice on Windows NT I increased my productivity in a minimum 30 per cent rather than others Operating Systems after Service Pack 4 installation. I'm working here in perfectly interactivity with Linux (Red Hat 5.2) and OS/2 (Warp 4.0 and 3.0) I have installed in the same machine. I moved entire trees from one OS to other using Midnight Commander (on Linux) and File Commander from Brian Havard on NT, Windows 98 and OS/2. I can't write on HPFS partitions but I boot OS/2 and copy entire trees from Windows partitions with perfectly longnames preservation.

Note that on Windows NT the user have not clipboard problems and have not limit to perform copy & paste operations. I coppied from Boxer editor to StarEdit a entire document with 388 pages, originally writted by Word 7.0, with links, images etc without problems, in only one super-fast operation!

PS: Before I installed Service Pack 4 on NT the best StarOffice performance was noted on red Hat Linux 5.2.

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