Uncreative Labs

Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 589 Location: Shandong, China

NT was great...until everybody started using it, and naturally it became infested with viruses. NT 4.0 was by far the best. My theory is each NT based release is progressively worse. This is probably due to the fact that the bulk of NT 4.0 was written by IBM and not by microsoft. Infact I'm not even convinced that microsoft really knows how to code...they just know how to successfully steal software from other companies. NT 4.0 is by far my favourite microsoft product though. It was somewhat usable with 32mb of RAM, and only crashed on systems with poorly built hardware. The first time I installed 2000, I remember being really disappointed with how slow it ran in cmoparison. But, it added a few features that NT 4.0 really needed:
-USB support
-NTFS5, FAT32 support
-DIRECTX 6+
-Device Manager
I think it added a bunch of other useless stuff too, which is probably what slowed it down so much. The only thing XP did that was worthwhile was the addition of Clear Type Font support. Too bad these features can't be added to NT4.

Also....

If a bottle of Pepsi costs about $50 in 2015, I don't think it's worth parting with a 486 for a measly $250.

Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 261 Location: WisConSin

There are unofficial ways of adding

USB support for very specific devices
NTFS 5
Fat 32

Into Windows NT4 but you have to admit it is a pain in the arse, NT4 was not very plug and play but once up and running it did well.

Joined: 14 Jan 2007 Posts: 15

If a bottle of Pepsi costs about $50 in 2015, I don't think it's worth parting with a 486 for a measly $250.[/quote]

I really hate to veer of the topic of fantasy.. and enter my version of reality.. where if current economic trends continue that bottle of Pepsi might be $50 by 2010. So yeah.. I would hang on to those systems till then and sell them for thousands of dollars, because your survival might depend on it.