Was the switch to an NT-based kernel in Windows XP really necessary for the general consumer? How long could they have continued to just make Windows versions based off of DOS?
Was the switch to an NT-based kernel in Windows XP really necessary for the general consumer...
William Myers
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Samuel Moore
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Juan Flores
I used 95 and 98, it was dogshit full of security failures. Switching to NT was definitely a big improvement especially if you wanted to connect to the internet
Andrew Wilson
>Was the switch to an NT-based kernel in Windows XP really necessary for the general consumer?
Yes
>How long could they have continued to just make Windows versions based off of DOS?
They tried with ME and it was a failure. Don't listen to dumb zoomers that tell you ME is stable. It might be now but it wasn't when they released it. People were buying brand new PCs with it pre-installed that would BSoD within hours of first being used. Everyone hated it with good reason.
Even in 98 it was already a huge problem. BSoD was just a common expected part of using the OS. You couldn't really track down what was causing it most of the time. Two applications or drivers would work fine by themselves but when combined with each other they would crash in odd ways.
Putting normalfags on NT was one of the few smart decisions they made in that era. Win2k was getting very popular in the 2 years before XP came out. The fear of games not working didn't really become the problem they thought it would. The new games like Q3A ran fine in it. It was the first OS most people ran at home that didn't crash once or twice a day. It was very stable.
I am not kidding when I tell you that 72+ hour uptimes on Windows 98 was considered really good. If you could keep 98 up for longer than a week and dumped your uptime to IRC channels people would oooohh and ahhhh over it.
Austin Martinez
Necessary? Probably not. People use 50 year-old operating systems all the time (see Linux). Welcome? Fuck yeah.
Joseph Martinez
Yes microsoft's nt based os's proved to be more robust and reliable compared to everything that came before it the dos prompt had pretty limited functionality and despite ntfs not having journaling its still better than instaling windows with fat filesystems
Nathaniel James
unironically it was, it made them to stop maintaining dos what was still 16-bit
Wyatt Robinson
>ntfs not having journaling
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Carson Green
>People were buying brand new PCs with it pre-installed that would BSoD within hours of first being used.
Yeah because OEMs though it was a good idea to install unstable WDM drivers instead of VxDs
>Don't listen to dumb zoomers that tell you ME is stable
retard allert