Here what I remember about NT 4.0 from around 1999-2000:
I used NT 4.0 on my shop server and also on my laptop and desktop units while with the feds. The desktop PC was a PIII and then a P4. I can't remember what was stuffed into to Gateway laptop. The software, other than the server, was...
Aside from the AutoCAD issue, the only software dongle that I ever used was on a proprietary piece of investigative software used for telco intercepts when I was with the feds (all court ordered telephone numbers and not voice). The software categorized and sorted various dial out phone numbers...
Here's what I know about AutoCAD and it's not much. Back in the early 90's, a close neighbor of mine was a contractor doing design work for a large automobile manufacturer in the Detroit area. He worked at home long before it was ever fashionable. Every once in a while he would give me an older...
You are correct and I'm a subject of my own feeble research methods and apologize to all. What I meant to indicated was that W2K was an extension of NT and therefore not completely new technology.
So was NT 4. Ran it for years on a server and desktop at work, as well as my government issued laptop. What hasten the departure from NT to XP was no or very limited USB support. The only USB device I ever encountered on NT4 was for a mouse from some hardware vendor .
Yes, but you're comparing a DOS based OS to a ground up Windows system. W7 is exceptionally stable and that's why I preserved and upgraded my W7 gamer to run with a Ryzen CPU. My W7 gamer can run CyberPunk 77 very nicely. Note: For the nit pickers, the GOG version of CP77 was backported to DX11...
Windows 2000 was merely a NT 4 upgrade with a kernel based on MSDOS and earlier Windows iterations. It was initially going to be released as NT 5. No one is questioning its stability with but its future usefulness, as being DOS based, ensured its downfall. XP was/is a resounding worldwide...