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@cks

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.

youtube.com/watch?v=WTkFGZqVCM

*** 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.

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@mroach @ColinHaynes

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

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@DenOfEarth @ytc1 @aka_pugs well #WindowsNT owned the workstation market because #Vendors like #SGI & #Sun failed to innovate...

  • Abeit sgi hals self-inflicted that by removing the reasons to buy their stuff when they switched to #Itanium #CPU|s and #nvidia #GPU|s and not developing #IRIX any further!

#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!

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@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...

-> infosec.space/@kkarhan/1146825

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.

  • Without that cooperative atmosphere we saw #OpenOffice devs literally forking off into @libreoffice and projects like #illumos and @openzfs scramble to save what was OpenSource'd and also rescue 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"...

  • Still I do am sad that I declined that #sysadmin position at a leading research center I'm not at liberty to name and I do know there's OFC still some critical infrastructure running even older Solaris servers...

mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1/1146893

Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)@DenOfEarth@mas.to @aka_pugs@mastodon.social I know. Cade in point, #OpenSolaris did have avid users just below that range, and a lot of #ScientificComputing used it, as they previously used #IRIX. And #Sun being #OpenSourve-friendly was the right direction...

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 copy.sh/v86/ exists. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

copy.shv86Run KolibriOS, Linux or Windows 98 in your browser

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 :[

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
setsideb.com/windows-nt-on-the
#niche #gamecube #niche #NT4 #PowerPC #StupidComputerTricks #video #WindowsNT #youtube

Set Side B · Windows NT on the Nintendo Gamecube & WiiI 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

🎮 Ah yes, because everyone was just pining for Windows NT on their #GameCube and #Wii. 🚀 Clearly, the future of gaming lies in resurrecting dead operating systems on obsolete consoles. 😂 GitHub, saving the world one pointless port at a time!
github.com/Wack0/entii-for-wor #WindowsNT #GamingHumor #GitHubPorts #HackerNews #ngated

GitHubGitHub - Wack0/entii-for-workcubes: PowerPC Windows NT ported to Nintendo GameCube/Wii/Wii UPowerPC Windows NT ported to Nintendo GameCube/Wii/Wii U - Wack0/entii-for-workcubes