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I can remember switching from Win 3.1 to Win NT. It was slower to boot up, but in the end saved me much time. I was developing C software at the time, and point
by Luyt 16y ago
I can remember switching from Win 3.1 to Win NT. It was slower to boot up, but in the end saved me much time. I was developing C software at the time, and pointer bugs would usually crash Win 3.1 and leave the system in an unusable state, requiring a full reboot. However, under Win NT processes were much better separated from the OS and rebooting was suddenly a thing of the past.
- wazoox 16y agoI remember in 1998 spending an afternoon debugging a C++ program that kept crashing for no reason. In fact at some point the windows NT 3D screen saver had crashed, and brought down the complete 3D stack with it. The program worked perfectly after a reboot...
- code_duck 16y agoSurely NT4 is better than Win 3.1 or Win 98, both of which are deplorably unstable. However, NT4 isnot that much better, on my experience. Win 2000 was where windows started being decent.
- Luyt 16y agoWin NT 3.51 was the first version I used. It looked like the old Win 3.1 at the time, and using PROGMAN.EXE instead of the windows Explorer (NT4 was the one getting the Win95 look, IIRC). In version 3.51, the video subsystem ran in usermode, and not in kernel mode. That happened in NT4 I think.