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GeekyBear ◴[23 Jun 23 14:55 UTC] No.36447675[source]▶

I'm of the opinion that the Windows NT family went downhill after Microsoft moved Dave Cutler from running Windows NT development to running other projects (Windows x64, XBox, Azure).

Dave's no excuses attitude towards performance and stability is sorely missed.

I know people who ran Windows Server 2003 as a client OS, which was the last version of NT that Dave was in charge of.

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1. EvanAnderson ◴[23 Jun 23 14:58 UTC] No.36447711[source]▶

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I ran Server 2003 on a Thinkpad T20 as a daily driver. It was a joy to use-- all of the XP kernel enhancements w/o any of the bloat.

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Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?