Windows NT 4.0
Windows NT 4.0
Brayden Ortiz
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Carter Collins
please stop this aesthetic shilling
Justin Jenkins
16 million lines of just werks
Jayden Stewart
>just werks
>NT 4
you're joking?
it was a disaster
it would routinely shit the bed
The official MS solution was to have a 2nd install of NT4 on a different partition so that you could repair the main one.
Christian Howard
>NT 4.0
>not NT 5.1
retard. win2k is best windows (if there is such a thing).
Cameron Phillips
I'm interested in how GUI was drawn, like icon placements, borders and all that shit. Does leaked win2k code have anything like that?
Nathaniel Murphy
Hardware support was pretty limp and setup could be troublesome but once you got a system functioning it was usually alright as long as the drivers were stable, and if you fucked up an ERD could usually set things straight. You'd probably know all of this if you weren't just a zoomer shitting out contrarian opinions to get attention.
t. retard who still posts here from NT 4.0
Ryder Ortiz
NT 5.1 was XP
5.0 was 2k
Connor Davis
NT4 was good but not great, still rough around the edges since it was only the second (major) release of NT.
It was substantially refined in 2k, but even that was rough and crash prone till SP3.
XP was rough as fuck till SP2.
Vista was rough as fuck till the improvements of 7 were backported to it.
Really, the 7 family (including the server side, 2008 R2) was the first time that NT was rather solid out the gate from release. It had it's own faults but not as much as prior releases up front.
Brayden Myers
Julian Perry
even when the fastest Microsoft Excel machine was an Alpha, still nobody was buying them
really blows RISCtards the fuck out doesn't it
Caleb Scott
Alpha only had a proformance lead for like 2-3 years and then was blown the fuck out by the time that the P3 came out since it scaled (for the time) really high and really sealed the deal with a RISC interpreted CICS instruction set could demolish the performance advantages of RISC chips.
RISC mostly benefited when die size was small, but as nodes shrunk, and dies got larger, the benefits started to disappear quickly.
Jordan Hernandez
Leaked NT4 code has 99%, i think only some of the TCP stack is missing. People have modified and compiled it and it works just like regular NT4 would
The 2k code is mostly just the explorer shell and maybe the kernel
Hudson Campbell
not wrong, but I do remember looking into it and finding for a time that suitably configured Alphas emulating x86 applications through FX!32 had a non-trivial lead, but it might have only been over Pentium Pro machines.
Alexander Allen
Interesting, is there any git or something for modified NT4's? I would love to have a look.
Henry Young
>Alphas emulating x86 applications through FX!32 had a non-trivial lead,
That shit really was magic. Still impresses me to this day.
Juan Gray
The 2k kernel is missing a whole lot. The nt4 code is quite complete and can be compiled on top of an msys install (for the included Unix tools). NT 4.5 is a great starting point for educational development.
Dominic Ward
It's on github. Uses its own special build tools. There's a handful of guys that have modded the code and gotten it to work well with bits of nt5 backported into it. Nt45 on github should get you the info you need
Camden Martin
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And this is probably the matching source code. If not you can get it from other places as well
github.com
Asher Carter
>The nt4 code is quite complete and can be compiled on top of an msys install (for the included Unix tools).
Is there any good guides for this? Always seemed fun just for shits. I found one once on a blog but all links were dead and many were not on the Wayback Machine
Matthew Cruz
Don't forget about the transmeta curuso - everything x86 was dynamically recompiled for its internal ISA.
Ryder Martinez
First time I hear about nt4 leak, pretty cool
Jordan Reed
>Microsoft servers hosting Windows source code
nice