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Aloha ◴[] No.36447476[source]
Well of course it does.

WinNT 3.51 was released in 1995 - the fastest PC in 1995 was either a Pentium or Pentium Pro at ~100 MHz - in 2000 a 600 MHz machine is likely a Coppermine PIII.

A fairly common amount of RAM in 1995 to Run WinNT would have been around 32 megs of ram, 64 megs would be especially generous. 128 megs is a high end workstation amount of memory.

The ATA interface also doubled in performance between 1995 and 2000.

There were significant security and stability improvements between NT 3.51 and Windows 2000 - particularly with changes to the driver model that increased stability. (even more so between 2000 and Windows 10/11)

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1. jtbayly ◴[] No.36447578[source]
He did another video with Windows 2k.

Spoiler: it was still just as fast.