Subj : 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : Tracker1
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue May 02 2023 13:29:36

  Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
  By: Tracker1 to Roon on Tue May 02 2023 07:31 pm

 Tr> Man, totally displaced NT4 from my memory... NT4 was decent, 3.5x was
 Tr> really clunky... Win2K was a pretty nice OS, even if it didn't do games.

Actually, wasn't Windows 2000 the first version of an NT-based Windows that could run a recent (at the time) version of DirectX? I ran Windows 2000 for a little while and remember it as the version of Windows where they were able to unite 9x and NT, and I was able to play some of my favorite PC games on Windows 2000.  Windows XP did end up becoming a lot more well-known though.

 Tr> Ran it as my main OS for a long while until XP SP3, and even then, I'd
 Tr> copy over the MCE UI to it, as I didn't like the Fisher Price look.

I only used Windows 2000 for a short time. In late 2001, I went to a Microsoft Visual Studio .NET release event, where they were giving away full copies of Visual Studio 2002 and Windows XP. I got my copy of Windows XP from that event, and I ran that for years. I thought it was cool that I got a legit copy of Windows XP for free from there and was able to use it for so long.

Nightfox
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