[Lazarus] fixes_0_9_30 on Windows NT4 does not build

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Tue Jan 25 15:26:20 CET 2011


Am 25.01.2011 10:57, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> Op 2011-01-25 11:47, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be het geskryf:
>>
>> I pitied the day I had to drop Windows NT otherwise I'd still be using
>> that.
>
> At least Win2000 was a descendant of NT4 code base, unlike XP which had
> lots of the Win95 to WinME (home + gaming support code) included. I read
> this somewhere on the net - if this is true, I wouldn't know. But I can
> say that Win2000 is fast and very stable.

Windows XP is an Windows NT 5.1 (Windows 2000 was Windows NT 5).

I personally am glad that Microsoft decided to discontinue the 9x line 
and focus only on the NT line, because by design the NT architecture is 
much safer then the old DOS based one (16 bit DOS driver stubs, no real 
memory protection, etc, etc). Also NT has real multi user support.

And just as a sidenote: Windows 2000 contained much of the so called 
"home + gaming support code" as well (you're able to run DirectX games 
there as well :D )

Regards,
Sven




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