[Wolves] Free to good home.

[Andy Jewell]

Or tweaking the registry on nt4 ws to make it behave like server, or a  
nasty shared pool memory leak in a fibre channel card driver under  
win2000 that kept bringing the server to a grinding halt...

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On 6 Dec 2009, at 19:21, "Mark Croft" <croftyboy at googlemail.com> wrote:

> could tell the one about installing slackware linux on my P166 machine
> at univeristy , 10 times and wondering why it i kept getting stuck
> with entering a password at the install stage.
>
>
> 2009/12/6 Kris Douglas <krisdouglas at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/12/6 Mark Croft <croftyboy at googlemail.com>:
>>> i know what you mean with the interface , i did quite like the  
>>> window
>>> 3.1 desktop it felt familar cos i had an atari GEM machine at home  
>>> and
>>> the look and feel was very much a gem clone i thought.
>>> Windows NT 3.51 was such a big improvement over trying to get  
>>> windows
>>> 3.1 too work on a network and getting it too see shared printers on
>>> the novel network etc etc
>>>
>>> Also it was quantum leap for programming in compared toodoing DOS
>>> command line compiling. I even got the debugger too step through  
>>> code
>>> as autocad was running in the background , made bug fixing loads
>>> easier.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2009/12/6 Stephen Parkes <sparkes at westmids.biz>:
>>>> 2009/12/6 Mark Croft <croftyboy at googlemail.com>:
>>>>> i remember using NT 3.5 on pentium 100 i think it was.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I didn't like NT 3.5 as it was old before it's time after 18  
>>>> months of
>>>> 'Chicago' interface leaks looking at the windows 3.1 interface  
>>>> made NT
>>>> look like a step backwards even if it was a million times better  
>>>> for
>>>> corporate users.
>>
>> You all have much more interesting stories of your WinOld  
>> experiences.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kris Douglas
>>
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