Windows NT: Remember Microsoft's almost perfect 20-year-old?

The Register ^ | 20th August 2013 | By Andrew Orlowski

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And OS/2 was good!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Brings back memories.

[big'ol_freeper]

[taxcontrol]

I LOVED OS/2 ... ran a 4 line 19.2 BBS off of OS/2 Warp!

[discostu]

It meant Not There. Because it wasn’t. They did a great job of “pre-announcing” products back then to make sure nobody bought the competition, spending years insisting they were going to release any day now.

[Fully Awake DAV]

Windows NT.... I was part of the Beta development for Windows NT.

[Red Badger]

We called it: Windows No Thanks.................

[mikrofon]

Sure does… I remember the efforts in the early 90’s trying to transition from the DEC-based mini environment to the “newfangled” PC/LAN systems.

I enjoyed working with OS/2, but it really had no chance in hell of going anywhere.

[Mannaggia l'America]

So was DEC.. Learned Basic and Cobol on RSTS/E on a PDP-11 in school. Would have done anything to get hold of a VMS system at that time.

[The KG9 Kid]

I was a beta tester for OS/2 Warp. It wasn't the easiest thing to install (You still had to write your own CONFIG.SYS to call device drivers on bootup), but once you got it running it ran Windows 3.1 apps better than a straight Windows/DOS box did.

Of course, the rest of the UI was just too CDE looking. The UI personalization enhancements that IBM added were a flipping train wreck if you touched them. You could use their tools and permanently massacre your UI to the point that reinstalling was the only option.

[Elderberry]

It was only a couple years ago that we stopped using Windows 2000 on a few holdout machines. It still said NT on bootup.

[The_Victor]

And it had one API to rule them, which meant everyone could see what NT could offer.

One API to rule them all One API to find them, One API to bring them all And in the darkness bind them.

[The_Victor]

Grrr, use the line breaks, Luke....

One API to rule them all
One API to find them,
One API to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them.

[IDFbunny]

Anybody remember XP 64-bit edition? That was the best OS ever by MS. Naturally it was a dead end. Everything worked fine and it was silky smooth.

[Doug Loss]

“The system requirements said, ‘Requires Windows NT or better,’ so I installed Linux.”

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This is an interesting distribution...that will show up on Distrowatch ....it has been accepted:

Robolinux

Discussion :

SOLVE ALL YOU COMPUTER PROBLEM WITH "ROBOLINUX"

Virtual Machine based .

CNET:

Robolinux

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Publisher's Description

From Robolinux.org:

Robolinux makes Windows 7 & XP 100 percent immune to viruses and malware with our one click Windows virtual machine installers. Imagine never ever getting a virus again for the rest of your life. Feel free to surf the web in Robolinux until you are blue in the face. No matter what you download or what website you visit, it will be impossible to get a Windows virus.

The Robolinux Windows VM's run seamlessly and are sand boxed inside Robolinux, so you cannot get a virus ever!. You can even run Linux apps on top of Windows. You can also share and transfer files between Windows and Robolinux or vice versa . Robolinux also automatically keeps the Windows registry running fast in its virtual machine with just one click from our menu. This has never been done before. Robolinux operates just like Windows menuing but it has some really awesome cool looking eye candy like our 3D App dock and our 3D Desktop to make your productivity soar like an eagle. Robolinux is highly intuitive and extremely easy to install without any hassles or technical knowledge whatsoever. Ease of use in Linux is now finally a reality. Our support is unprecedented. Robolinux runs 3 to 5 times faster than any Windows version when it is installed on your hard drive.

We spent a great deal of time building and configuring Robolinux from rock solid Linux Debian source code so you don't have to be a tech genius to run Linux. Most if not all other Linux operating systems can be way too much work for the average person so in the end they just give up and go back to their Windows virus trap lives. What a bummer indeed. Please be aware that the DVD you download here runs much slower than a hard disk installation. What is important is you will get to run it instantly so you can evaluate how it works and know what it's all about. You can install it on your hard disk in less than 20 minutes by visiting our website and clicking on the download now menu option.

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Uses Compiz

[GeronL]

Almost perfect?

Tell that to the 37% who still use Windows XP

[TigersEye]

Dang! That sounds pretty good. I have toyed with the idea of using a Linux distro OS on a thumb drive, leaving no traces on whatever computer was used to run it, but just haven’t gotten around to it.

[The Great RJ]

Actually Windows XP wasn’t too bad and many people are still using it. I recently switched from XP to Windows 7 and am very impressed. Windows 8 however could become like Windows Vista.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See #16.