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5 Sep 2024 21:25:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Obsolete technology  
From: nemesis
Date: 24 Apr 2009 13:53:36
Message: <49f1fca0@news.povray.org>
Invisible escreveu:
> Well, yesterday I had a wonderful time, because I had to downgrade a 
> perfectly working PC from Windows XP to Windows NT.

Oh!  I thought you finally phoned the girl! XD

> When XP first appeared, I regarded NT as lean, simple, fast and stable. 
> XP on the other hand was bloated, overcomplicated, buggy and slow.

Same as XP vs Vista! :)

> Well, let us look at the Windows NT installation and setup process, 
> shall we?
> 
> First you boot from the installation CD. Nothing new there. After a 
> moment or two of thrashing the head of the CD drive, you enter a 
> text-mode setup program, not unlike the one for XP.

Wow.  And then you guys call Linux install complicated... :P

> So you can only see 8GB right now. But that's rather moot. You see, you 
> can create a partition as large as you like, but you can only *format* a 
> partition that is 4 GB or smaller.

Yes, that sounds fun. ;)

> In fairness, NT was quite a lot faster than XP. But that's about all it 
> had going for it.

Yeah, shame you don't have source available to bump up those limits a 
bit... :P

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