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Developer ports Windows NT to Power Macintosh systems — firmware and boot loader now available (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's not stable, but it will boot and run ... most of the time.

Pretty much my recollection of running Windows NT on x86.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    NT 3.5 wasn’t too bad.

    NT4 moved a lot of stuff into the kernel that wasn’t ready for prime time and we suffered for it, at least on NT Workstation.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    To expand, Windows NT was originally a microkernel system where all the drivers were in userspace. This is more stable but ended up being very slow. With NT 4, they started moving drivers into the kernel and it was really buggy in the beginning. It wasn’t until NT 4 SP3 that it was usable.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    4.0 was my first exposure to NT - I used systems running 3.5 a few times, but not enough to have any real opinion on it. I did know there had been big architectural changes, but that was all. I have no difficulty believing 3.5 was better though.

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    • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Boy, in 1994 this would've been huge!

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Those poor Power Macintoshes

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