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Windows 2000 Pro is NT based, it came out before XP. It was more stable than XP. The hardware had to pass up the OS in stability features. 486 and under CPUs h
by cable2600 5y ago
Windows 2000 Pro is NT based, it came out before XP. It was more stable than XP.
The hardware had to pass up the OS in stability features. 486 and under CPUs had a heat sink but no fan. Some CPUs didn't even have a heat sink. They ran hot being on for 24/7. Causing lockups and freezes.
I have Windows 95 in a virtual machine and it runs faster and without the crashes and freezes on my Intel i5 system.
Don't forget OS/2 2.0 it was stable and crash proof. It was a join IBM and Microsoft product. Microsoft's OS/2 became NT.
- ido 5y agoI don’t buy the CPU argument - NeXT managed that (with what became OS X) on 486-level hardware (68030) in the late 80s. Surely Microsoft and Apple had more resources to spend on software development than NeXT? NT was great but MS only started selling it to the consumer market with XP.
- cable2600 5y agoXenix ran on 8088 PC/XT systems. I remember now. Unix was stable, DOS/Windows was not. Which is why Steve Jobs used BSD Unix for NextOS.