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

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752 points dceddia | 2 comments | 23 Jun 23 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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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. HeckFeck ◴[23 Jun 23 16:04 UTC] No.36448765[source]▶
If I could, I would use NT 3.51 as my daily driver today. I know a lot of 32 bit software would still work on it well into the late 90s/early 2000s.
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2. EvanAnderson ◴[23 Jun 23 19:12 UTC] No.36451013[source]▶
The pre-Windows 2000 NT OS's all suffer from needing too many reboots and the whole "re-apply the latest service pack after adding optional components" lunacy.

I'm partial to the Windows 95-style interface so I jumped ship on NT 3.51 as soon as I could for NT 4.0.

Jumping to Windows 2000 was, likewise, an easy decision if only for not having to reboot after making IP address changes, and having USB and plug 'n play support.

Moving frm Windows 2000 to XP was less of a "no brainer". I continued to use Windows 2000 for quite awhile after XP came out. I skipped Vista entirely but Windows 7 was too nice not to jump on immediately. (It was the first MSFT OS I ran as a daily driver in beta, actually.)