Author Topic: Windows NT (Read 1285 times)

Shadow Queen · « **on:** September 27, 2011, 12:26:03 PM »

Do we have a Windows NT out there?

I never heard of it before.

Nesa · « **Reply #1 on:** September 27, 2011, 06:55:27 PM »

All new windows are based of NT, the only ones called NT were Windows NT 3, 3.5 and 4 then came Windows 2000 (NT version 5).
Windows XP (NT version 5.1) Vista (NT Version 6) Windows 7 (NT version 6.1)

Shadow Queen · « **Reply #2 on:** September 27, 2011, 07:30:18 PM »

O, I didn't know that.

NT be all windows then.

What about the older version windows? Does them have NT too Beside the new ones.

Nesa · « **Reply #3 on:** September 27, 2011, 08:34:19 PM »

Not all are NT based their are the 9x as well
Windows 98
Windows ME

Windows 95 isn't really a OS its a GUI for DOS but that one as well.

bigguy · « **Reply #4 on:** September 28, 2011, 09:37:20 PM »

Wasn't windows 95 a gui for Win 3.1 not dos. And in turn win 3.1 was a gui for Dos. Or am I wrong.

All the same thing really up until they started using NT.

Nesa · « **Reply #5 on:** September 28, 2011, 10:51:23 PM »

I remember someone saying you can't install windows 95 without dos I'm about to test that on VMware.
I had Windows 95 running without 3.11 installed.

bigguy · « **Reply #6 on:** September 29, 2011, 07:26:18 AM »

Dos was always the underlying o/s but I do remember being able to upgrade win 3.1 to win 95

Nesa · « **Reply #7 on:** September 30, 2011, 06:42:46 AM »

Needed a boot disk but it did install without dos.

bigguy · « **Reply #8 on:** October 02, 2011, 10:43:10 PM »

Dos is embedded in Win95 is it not.

Nesa · « **Reply #9 on:** October 02, 2011, 10:44:21 PM »

From what I was told it wasn't but it looks like it is, thats version C

bigguy · « **Reply #10 on:** October 02, 2011, 10:46:03 PM »

There was 4 versions of 95. There was the upgrade version and then a, b, c.

Nesa · « **Reply #11 on:** October 02, 2011, 10:54:25 PM »

Probably B was only sold to OEM, so you could only buy A and C

bigguy · « **Reply #12 on:** October 02, 2011, 10:56:32 PM »

Possible, I can't remember now. Man is that going back a long way....I still remember using Dos, lol.

Nesa · « **Reply #13 on:** October 02, 2011, 11:03:42 PM »

Yes DOS and DOS Shell I ran windows 3.11 on my 486 one day I decided to do some cleaning of the hard disk and deleted command.com autoexect.bat and a third one that I can't remember.
Also installing a cd-rom in my pc it was a 12 speed(fastest one at the time) no plug and play, it took dad a while to edit the right files.
The good old days.

bigguy · « **Reply #14 on:** October 02, 2011, 11:10:52 PM »

Damn I can't remember that third one either but it was always those three that had problems. I loved editing all those files and gettin right technical. My last small computer that ran dos was a 486DX66 The 66 was the mhz of the cpu, lmao.

Nesa · « **Reply #15 on:** October 02, 2011, 11:18:15 PM »

Mine was something like that too I don't think it was 66 it had a turbo button though, I used it for games.
People think Intel's new turbo technology is fantastic we had it on the 486 PCs the only thing is it wasn't automatic but manual, I had 4MB of ram not enough to run win 95 that needed 16, 8 min or something like that.

bigguy · « **Reply #16 on:** October 03, 2011, 11:32:36 AM »

8 minimum yes. Not to sure how much I had in mine but it wasn't a lot either. The turbo button was cool but after awhile it was more problems then good. It had a tendancy to burn out on some boards.

Shadow Queen · « **Reply #17 on:** October 05, 2011, 02:34:53 PM »

Why does the big time people have to made and make so many version of Windows?

I really don't understand why. Why can't they wait and released one version at the time then version a, b so on?

bigguy · « **Reply #18 on:** October 05, 2011, 07:23:52 PM »

Versions following the original release were primarily made for bug and security fixes. Then, as time rolled on you would have to upgrade to keep up with the changing times. They do release to many versions though that's for sure.

Shadow Queen · « **Reply #19 on:** October 05, 2011, 08:11:10 PM »

I never thought of that. Still you have a point about bugs and securitys in Windows.

Umm, Well, at less they are making sure to keep their user in good. Still they have the releases to close to together you know.

I lost court on the windows while back.

I do think they should cut back on releases on windows some....

bigguy · « **Reply #20 on:** October 06, 2011, 12:12:30 AM »

Releases went like this as far as i remember:

Dos
win 3.0
win3.11
win 95 upgrade
win 95 A
win 95 B
win 95 C
Win 98 upgrade
win 98 second edition
win 98
win ME upgrade
win ME
win Xp upgrade
" " Home
" " premium
" " Pro
Neptune
Longhorn (beta)
Vista
Vista Basic
" Home
" Basic
" Premium
" Pro
" Ultimate
Win 7(and all it's counter parts)

I may have missed a few dos and win 3. xx versions and a few others so feel free to update this post. Neptune was never released but if you search for it it is a discontinued o/s from MS that can be played around with.

I left out win NT and server editions but they are in there as well somewhere, lol