Comment by accrual
7 days ago
Neat project! Will be cool to see once it's up and running
Lately I installed NT 4.0 on my i486DX4-100 system. With 64MB of RAM and a CF card it runs very well, it actually feels quite modern and NT 4.0 is slowly growing on me. I've experimented with service packs and found SP4 was the right balance of supporting later software without slowing it down much.
Just installed Visual Basic 5 and Python 2.3 and it's approaching 24 hours of uptime. The system clock is synced to my router as well!
For me the frustrations with NT 4.0 are all the reboots associated with changing settings, and the lack of plug 'n play (for USB devices). Those things aside it runs well.
Windows 2000 gets you a lot of quality-of-life improvements w/ a tremendous amount of bloat.
re: uptime - I've seen NT 4.0 machines w/ multi-year uptimes. I actually saw one running Microsoft Exchange w/ a >2 year uptime. I was shocked.