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Does anyone remember how good Windows 2000 was? NT4 with USB support. Rock solid, a gem of an OS, quick, stable, and light weight.
I have it running still on a Pentium with 256 MB of RAM, and it is very quick. Far far quicker than win 7 on an i7 with 3 GB or RAM. If any of todays SW would run on it it would be my OS of preference.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Does anyone remember how good Windows 2000 was?
Yes, still have one of them original CD's, but a shame it doesn't support anything beyond .NET 2.0.
Have you recently tried a version of Linux? Booting from a USB-stick? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I use Ubuntu too, its good. Very good.
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I ran 2000 for several years and loved it. No problems at all!
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I am still running Windows 2000 as a file server without any problems whatsoever. I will keep using it until the PC melts or whatever.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yep, a really solid OS! 
/ravi
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But is it faster than Windows 10?
That would be the real challenge to beat! :P
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Windows 10 is the fastest OS ever.
It crashes faster than any other, it messes things up with every update faster than any other, and it pisses you off faster than any other.
Yeah, nothing beats Windows 10 when it comes to speed 
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Sander Rossel wrote: It crashes faster than any other
There speaks a man who never used Windows 3.11 - GPF's are go!
veni bibi saltavi
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Guilty as charged 
Well, we had a computer at elementary school that used Windows 3.something, but I only played some lame game on that a few times.
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Given that it is lightening quick in an old Pentium with 256 MB of RAM it would destroy Windows 10 on something like an i7 with 3 GG. Utterly destroy it.
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I think you're underestimating the value of having new bright shiny gizmos on the start menu that we really don't need.
Jeremy Falcon
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Windows 2000
Nope, never used it.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: If any of todays SW would run on it it
Exactly why you can't use it today. Today's sw would be dog slow on it, if it would even run at all. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Wasn't 2000 the bastard love child of Win95 and NT? I remember being able to get a coffee while it booted up, I remember never being able to get the right drivers, and I remember the new UI with the drop-shadow menus which were awesome until I started noticing more and more that I'd see the shadow, then wait...and wait...and wait...and then the menu would appear.
I actually loved Win2000 because it was clean, but I liked XP because it supported more peripherals, was a little easier on Mum and Dad users, and was then sad when Vista was panned so badly. Sure they missed the point, but frankly I can't see much difference between the annoyances of Vista and what MacOS does nowadays. Win7 is still my favourite by far.
If they get off their arses and fix the dichotomy between the Metro settings pages and old Win95 based dialog pages that abound in Win10 then I'll love it more. As long as they stop dumbing them down. Whoever is in charge of the Network settings stack needs to be slapped around a fair bit.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yes, it took the PnP model off 95 and blended it, with USB, on to NT4, coming up with a new kernel model, filters and layered drivers, but using the NT4 API. And a damn goof job was done if you ask me.
Of course it meant a lot of new kernel code was needed, particularly USB, but you cold still run NT4 drivers on it. Even today serial.sys is a monolith driver straight out of NT4
I only recently touched on MacOS, on a tablet, and I have to say, it is crap.
As for win 7 though, don't get me started on it. Its network management is an absoloute disaster. It is almost impossible to get two machine s to talk to each other. And, when they do, something will change at next boot and its back to the beginning again! XP and 2K just worked.
Anyway, I pretty much hate IT anyway, still, it pays for the beer!
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Yes, I thought Win2K was so good that I basically skipped XP altogether! I used until 2009 when Win7 came out.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Windows 2000
Loved it!
My fav MS OS - with W7 coming in a close-ish 2nd.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Got it tomorrow.
As far as I know I'm performing pretty well, so I'm not worried.
If anything was wrong I would've heard it by now.
Still, can't hurt to ask, any tips on what (not) to say?
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Don't say: "Boss, if you were as smart as you think you are, you wouldn't be stuck at a level where you need to concern yourself with my performance!"
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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What about "you're only so smart that you need to concern yourself with my performance, yet you earn twice my salary so I guess you're doing something right after all!"
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Yes! That will put him in his place!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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If your employer is environmentally conscious you probably shouldn't compare your performance to JSOP's car.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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What about his guns?
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Ask them:
- So, when do I get to review YOUR performance?
- By what objective criteria do you review performance?
- If my performance did not exceed your expectations, who's fault is that REALLY?
- If my performance exceeded your expectations, who else contributed to that success?
4 is always and interesting question because it will reveal whether your boss is tuned in to how well (or not) the team is functioning.
Then again, you may elect not to ask any of those questions. 
Marc
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