> Well, I was doing multi-platform C development across all major commercial UNIX vendors and NT on those days, what about you? HP-UX and AIX for me, and NT (m

> Well, I was doing multi-platform C development across all major commercial UNIX vendors and NT on those days, what about you? HP-UX and AIX for me, and NT (my colleagues also worked on Netware, but I wasn't involved with it). My experiences are different than yours: we had near-daily BSODs and the system was generally regarded as a bit of a joke. We worked closely with MS back then (late '90s) and I met some of the kernel team, who told me about the farce of pushing GDI into the kernel - the worst mistake they ever made in terms of stability, though usability-wise it was great. The Windows UI was silky smooth on the limited hardware of the time. But yeah, in my experience NT defenders were few and far between back then.