> NT was solid from the start IIRC in about 1989 NT 3.1 was a very solid an reliable system. The problem was it did no do IP It was mostly downhill from ther

> NT was solid from the start IIRC in about 1989 NT 3.1 was a very solid an reliable system. The problem was it did no do IP It was mostly downhill from there. I got my first Linux machine in about 1992 and lost touch But keeping windows NT patched, and keeping it running IP reliably were incompatible for a while Did not stop its wide introduction in my world as IP servers. It was as if software managers did not know any other systems existed. Linux was considered "a toy" because it was free, it was much more reliable than NT (as was BSD I hear) Sun were the other option but I saw no one spending the money It was buggy, unreliable, insecure NT servers all the way Still is for some. Squeezing into a Windows instance on Azure, fifteen mouse clicks, three context switches, and you have emulated rsync... Still making money selling terrible software, but now as a service....