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Well, there are huge differences (in the MS world) between 9x and NT. DOS (before) was very, very stable (but of course was not multitasking) and widely used i
by jaclaz 7y ago
Well, there are huge differences (in the MS world) between 9x and NT.
DOS (before) was very, very stable (but of course was not multitasking) and widely used in industrial setups.
Windows NT (before Win9x) and Windows 2000 (right after) were both, very, very stable, I had machines running 24/7/365 that were rebooted once a year or so and for other reasons (maintenance/update, hardware replacement, black outs longer than UPS capability, etc.).
- barrkel 7y agoDOS wasn't functional enough to be described as stable; it did almost nothing but look after the files on your file system and provide a few APIs, via interrupts, for programs to read and write files and perform console I/O. Stability was almost entirely the responsibility of the program you ran on top.