Windows NT4.0

11 ^PM October 14, 2003

I’m using Win NT 4.0 at work at the moment on a fairly modern PC. It stinks:

Microsoft won’t support it with a decent version of Windows Media Player, or any new software for that matter.

Regularly goes into a trance when switching applications. Hard disk drive light goes flat out, CPU usage drops to zero and the mouse pointer freezes. Suspect it’s because NT can’t cope with 1Gb of memory.

It can barely multi-task. Has trouble compiling Java and playing music at the same time. Mouse pointer gets jerky as CPU load rises above 80%.

Remember this next time someone tries to tell you that Windows XP is no better than NT 4.0.

By alang | # | Comments (1)

(Posted to Software Development)

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At 04:08, 17 Oct 2003 James Kew wrote:

I had the same problem on NT4 before we switched to W2K -- RealOne woul stutter like mad every time my build started linking.

And of course NT4 is stuck with a prehistoric version of DirectX, which really limits the networked games you can fire up after work. (Unreal Tournament and Worms World Party both run nicely, though...)

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