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It was mainly because Win2k was basically the next version of WinNT which had nothing in common with Win95/98 under the hood.
by bad_op3rator 6y ago
It was mainly because Win2k was basically the next version of WinNT which had nothing in common with Win95/98 under the hood.
- Avery3R 6y agoYeah, windows has had 3 major flavors in its history. Win 1.x-3.x were just GUIs on top of DOS. Win9x was a true operating system with a kernel, but the kernel was still running on top of DOS. NT, what we have now, is a kernel that runs directly on the hardware. On 32-bit machines dos programs are run using a virtual machine
- gpvos 6y ago2000 was also more stable than NT 3.51 and NT4. XP was a bit more stable again, but also contained more cruft.