They flipped the order, but nearly 30 years later it's almost the same UI.
First: Windows NT 4 (1996), Second: Windows 11 (2025)
They flipped the order, but nearly 30 years later it's almost the same UI.
First: Windows NT 4 (1996), Second: Windows 11 (2025)
Well, yes. It's Windows NT.
Everything in the Native API always returns an explicit NTSTATUS separately from (mostly via "out" parameters) actual result values.
OS/2 was the same, and it's one of the things that Microsoft and IBM did right. Albeit that POSIX Threads got this right, too.
The dates on all of those show that by the late 1980s people already knew that one could do better than setting errno or the result from one value according to a flag bit.
Did you know that the 'NT' in Windows NT stood for "Nine Ten"?
The intended core platform for the OS was the then-expected Intel i910 RISC processor, which was to be the rebranded moniker for the i860 that can be found in the wild. *
It never came to be due to the i860s terrible handling of context switching -- a capability that a CPU for a multitasking, multiuser workstation OS must be able to do _very_efficiently_. The i860 wasn't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTkFGZqVCM8&t=459s
*** EDIT: Several have pointed to sources indicating differently that NT stood for N10, which was the codename for the i860, so -- N10, N-Ten > NT.
In the meantime, Microsoft tried to ruin everyone's fun by making Windows NT 10.0 be the same version number as used by the marketing people.
But it's alright. It has slipped again. Windows NT version 10.0.26100 is is not called that by the marketing people.
One is not immune in the non-Microsoft world, though. Place these in the correct order:
Buster
Etch
Forky
Jessie
Potato
Sarge
Sid
Wheezy
Trixie
(-:
@DenOfEarth @ytc1 @aka_pugs well #WindowsNT owned the workstation market because #Vendors like #SGI & #Sun failed to innovate...
#SunMicrosystems at least didn't stall in terms of #Software, but once #Oracle acqured them and started shaking down Sun Technology users for "#IP infringement" and "License Violations" they basically made using anythibg but #Linux a bad choice on #Servers!
@ytc1 @DenOfEarth @aka_pugs I know.
And espechally in #ScientificComputing a lot of researchers loved working with #SunMicrosystems and when #Oracle took over that relationship got sour'd instantly due to #Oracle #CEO #LarryEllison...
-> https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114682503920794745
One of the big successes of #Sun was that they basically declared a unilateral "ceasefire" in terms of #IP & #Patents re: #OpenSource. Whereas Oracle didn't seem willing to honour that.
Obviously #Linux with it's #GPLv2only-Kernel and most of it's Userland could not get 'closed-sourced' like #OpenSolaris which instantly got stomped out by Oracle as they wanted to sqeeze #Solaris for profits and milk their clients in typical Oracle fashion...
Now granted, I do know someone who for most of their life made their money dealing with the intricacies of setting up #postfix, #sendmail and #courier #MailServers on Solaris and if I ask said person about that they give me a kilometer stare, so OFC like a #SysV - #Unix systems Solaris and #SunOS really are one of the reasons #WindowsNT won the "#WorkstationWar" and why - if anyone - #Apple won the last "#UnixWar"...
Those who fail to understand Unix are doomed to forever keep trying to turn it into Windows NT.
I kinda just tend to assume that everyone has a copy of VirtualBox, #pcem, and a multi-TB stash of ISOs from winworldpc.com on their NAS... but I'm occasionally reminded that this is not the case. If this is not you, but you need access to real #WindowsNT or #Windows95 or #Windows31 for an experiment or two, consider this a reminder that https://copy.sh/v86/ exists. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
Working on a unique file manager based on legendary Midnight Commander. Would you like to try?
While reading MSDN Library 2001 I came across mention that Exchange Server 5.5 supports AppleTalk.
I setup Exchange 5.5 and tried to find some version of MIcrosoft Mail for Macintosh that would work and/or do something, but ended up destroying my MacOS 9.2 virtual machine instead.
I just wanted to bring enterprise-grade mail services to the network :[
Microsoft of the 90s: you can't install a database server because your web browser needs to be updated.
This is neat.
Netbooting Windows 95 from NT Server 4.0 on a diskless client.
Did I just do a #Markdown conversion of Mark Russinovich’s seminal 1998 article on #WindowsNT (and by extension, all modern versions of #MicrosoftWindows)’ debt to #DEC’s #VMS #OperatingSystem? Just so I could have a decent copy apart from the dusty carried-over archived version at https://www.ITProToday.com/server-virtualization/windows-nt-and-vms-the-rest-of-the-story ?
Why yes, yes I did. Why not?
Windows NT on the Nintendo Gamecube & Wii
I had a bad fall from a bike a few days ago and my arm is still really weak, which has affected how much typing I can put into these posts. Still, I am getting better, and so here's two videos of people installing Windows NT 4.0 to Nintendo consoles, using an ISO of the install CD and tools and informati
https://setsideb.com/windows-nt-on-the-nintendo-gamecube/
#niche #gamecube #niche #NT4 #PowerPC #StupidComputerTricks #video #WindowsNT #youtube
MER IL È FOU!!
Des tarés ont porté Windows NT (l’original hein, de 1994) sur GameCube, Wii et Wii U !
https://github.com/Wack0/entii-for-workcubes
Ça s’inscrit dans un projet plus large de portage de Windows NT vers les plateformes PowerPC d’IBM.
Crédit photo: u/catgame4116
#GameCube #NintendoGameCube #WindowsNT
Clearly, the future of gaming lies in resurrecting dead operating systems on obsolete consoles.
GitHub, saving the world one pointless port at a time!
https://github.com/Wack0/entii-for-workcubes #WindowsNT #GamingHumor #GitHubPorts #HackerNews #ngated
Windows NT 4.0 sur la Wii et le GameCube, c'est possible http://dlvr.it/TJDMNH #WindowsNT #Wii
Heute genau vor 25 Jahren erschien #Windows 2000 (NT 5.0). Mit der Grundstein für alle nachfolgenden Windows Versionen wie #XP, #Vista, #Windows7, etc.
https://heise.de/-10282913
#Win2K #W2K #Millenium #WindowsNT
Was it really only 3 floppy disks? (Windows NT Server version 4.0)
[Edit]: Apparently not.. there was also a CD ;)