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Virtual Computer Museum - VNC into Archaic Windows Systems
Author : throwup238
Score : 59 points
Date : 2024-01-11 12:27 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| cdchn wrote:
| I think Windows 2000 is the only one I remember fondly.
| jjbinx007 wrote:
| I think it's a grossly underrated OS.
|
| As good as Windows XP but without the awful garish themes - it
| had all that made the Windows 98 GIU great but with the
| stability of Windows NT.
|
| Also, I don't think you needed to activate it and it didn't
| have much in the way of telemetry. We'll never have a Windows
| version as great again.
| Modified3019 wrote:
| My only computer for a long time was old thinkpad, so I
| actually ended up skipping over windows XP entirely.
|
| I finally moved on after the first service pack for vista
| came out (in 2008), which was surprisingly alright in my
| experience. It ended up being more stable than win2000.
|
| The biggest problem with the older windows is that poorly
| written drivers (which is most of them) had a tendency to
| bluescreen the entire system when they fucked up. Newer
| windows is so much more resistant to that now.
| bandergirl wrote:
| > [Vista] was surprisingly alright in my experience
|
| I never understood the hate for Vista. People were overly
| complacent and wanted a OS that ran on 128MB of ram like XP
| did. Vista was not that. When 7 came along, it was pretty
| much the same core, except now many computers were already
| Vista-capable.
|
| I was using the Vista _Beta_ of my 2GB-RAM computer for 6
| months before release and it was vastly better than XP.
| nickweb wrote:
| The hate came from it being pre installed on massively
| underpowered computers. The majority of users came to
| vista with a new PC and it just ruined the experience.
|
| I still remember trying to troubleshoot a minor issue and
| it took half a day just because of the performance on
| this new PC.
| n8cpdx wrote:
| Project Mojave was Microsoft's attempt to correct this
| issue. It didn't go well.
|
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ihorvo2tEuA
| serf wrote:
| I don't remember the specifics, but I do remember that
| Vista broke a ton of drivers I used for industrial
| equipment. Serial controllers, that kind of stuff.
|
| If I remember right it had something to do with the
| transition to driver signing beginning around that era.
|
| So, it represented a lot of labor.
|
| >I was using the Vista Beta of my 2GB-RAM computer for 6
| months before release and it was vastly better than XP.
|
| you were blessed to have 2gb in 06. a lot of us didn't.
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| vctrnk wrote:
| Up to that point, most Windows iterations didn't require
| (for the time) big upgrades to run fine. Many PCs
| designed for a given version could run the next, maybe
| with a little elbow grease, but the bottom line is: the
| out-of-the-box experience on new AND upgraded PCs was
| mostly okay.
|
| Then it came Vista. An OS designed for at least 1Gb RAM,
| preinstalled on machines who stubbornly refused to sell
| with more than 512Mb (even 384Mb, the horror!) for a
| looong time. I remember that, at least where I live, RAM
| prices sky rocketed just months afther Vista came out,
| because almost all people irremediably _needed_ the
| upgrade.
|
| It also didn't help that vendors were happy to fill new
| systems with their auto-installing crapware. While this
| wasn't Microsoft fault, it certainly helped to cement
| Vista's reputation as a very heavy-weight OS.
|
| Having said that. I concede the point that Vista was
| pretty alright, provided your PC had the grunt to run it.
| mepian wrote:
| XP had much better compatibility with Windows 95/98 software
| than 2000, especially games, as far as I remember.
| anthk wrote:
| Windows 2000 had a compatibility mode a la XP, but you
| needed to activate it with a command. No, XP wasn't better,
| some Direct Draw games just ran under Windows 95, 98, ME or
| 2000 in compat mode.
| EvanAnderson wrote:
| Windows Server 2003 had all the XP goodness but without the
| UI cruft. I ran it as a daily driver for a few years. Until
| Windows 7 came out it was the best version of Windows.
| Product activation was its downside.
| stevekemp wrote:
| Windows 2000 was peak-Windows for me, for sure.
|
| Not quite as stable as Windows NT4, but pretty close, and it
| benefited from added support for USB and other "modern"
| things.
| irusensei wrote:
| I was happy with it before I got pwned by Nimda. I think it was
| the only time I got infected by a virus (at least knowingly) in
| my entire life. I did work supporting 2k servers and
| workstations in my first jobs but I was already a Linuxhead by
| then.
| another2another wrote:
| Windows 7 was also pretty decent, and managed to somewhat
| redeem the horror that was Vista.
| sixothree wrote:
| Windows 7 was a beautiful operating system. It completely
| redeemed the absolute "horror that was Vista" for a lot of
| people.
| ahoka wrote:
| Just bought a T43 to run Windows 2000 this week. Just got wifi
| working with WPA2, so I just need some decent browser and some
| apps next.
| anthk wrote:
| Retrozilla.
| irdc wrote:
| Truth be told I had hoped for something a little more archaic
| than Windows 95.
| fragmede wrote:
| Shoot, win95 is _archaic_? when did we get so old? Gimmie some
| 3.11 for Workgroups.
| archarios wrote:
| Where's Microsoft BOB!?
| mrpippy wrote:
| Long ago, Insignia Solutions (famous for the SoftPC/SoftWindows
| emulators) had a product called NTrigue which I think later
| turned into Citrix MetaFrame? Not sure about the lineage. Anyway,
| it was an early NT terminal server product.
|
| I remember they ran an open-to-the-Internet NT 3.51 server, you
| could download the ICA Client and connect to it. Imagine leaving
| a Windows terminal server that wide-open now.
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| When I hear "Computer Museum," I feel anger, and I realize that
| I'm not yet over Paul Allen's family dismantling his Living
| Computer Museum after his death. That place was doing really
| great work.
| nxobject wrote:
| Interesting choice of tech stack - we're RDPing into a Win 8+
| Windows session that, in turn, seems to be either using RDP or
| VNC to connect to virtual sessions. I imagine that, if we were
| creating something like this today, we'd just emulate in the
| browser with a streaming disk!
| duskwuff wrote:
| > I imagine that, if we were creating something like this
| today, we'd just emulate in the browser with a streaming disk!
|
| Kind of like what https://infinitemac.org/ does for Apple
| systems?
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