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X-Trader Technical Requirements
 

Before signing up for X-Trader, please make sure that your computer system can support this powerful software. To run X-Trader, your system must meet the following requirements.

 
850 MHz or higher recommended, Intel 550 MHz minimum
 
Windows NT workstation 4.0 or Windows 2000. For NT 4.0 use Service Packs 5,
    6a (SP 6 not recommended) - Windows ME, 98 or 95 cannot be used
 
128 MB RAM minimum
 
1GB of available hard disk space for software and log files
    (EIDE sufficient, ultra-wide SCSI or ultra-wide SCSI II recommended)
 
Hard disks formatted using NTFS (file system)
 
10/100 Mb auto-switching network interface card
 
CD-ROM and 1.44 MB floppy drives
 
21" color-8 plane color monitor, tested to 1600x1200
 
For single monitor use, a 32 Mb AGP graphics card is recommended.
    A 16MB PCI graphics card with 16 bit video depth is minimum.
    For multiple monitor use, an AGP graphics card with 32 Mb per monitor head is recommended.
 
3-button mouse to support middle button click trading with Microsoft Intellimouse
    (Intellipoint) software removed. A two-button mouse is supported, but Click and Dime trading
    are mutually exclusive.
 
TIBCO Rendezvous (included with TT software)

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