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Ditto for the Sheffield College, who also seem to be using Windows NT4 on a
Netware network, running the whole shebang on P133's. After a 15 minute
boot/logon, it does tend to crash somewhat ;-)

Current record is 9 machines down in one room of 16 in less than a minute!

Craig

>
>A friend reminded me today of a place in Sheffield with a huge number of
>computers who's screens are fixed at 800x600 and can't be changed unless
you
>break the administrator account...
>
>All the computers at Hallam Uni are fixed at 800x600 - I'm not sure of the
>reason of this, but thats the way it is. Some computers, I've been told,
are
>fixed at 640x480 as the monitors that have don't do any more (these are in
>the Eric Mensforth building).
>
>Hallam Uni does not have the budget to upgrade every single machine, so
>they've taken the lowest common denominator at which a computer is usablem
>and used that globally.
>
>Chris...
>
>
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