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> windows (3.11, 95) would crash,

>> At the same time that you were experiencing blue screens

>>> first time I used Windows NT 4

For the 3.11/95 period, I was talking about NT 3.51 not 4.

Yes, NT 4 had well known issues with poor quality graphics drivers. For this reason many of us stayed with 3.51 until the graphic driver problems were ironed out.

You can cherry pick unstable OS's from any time period. But there is nothing special about today's OS's or programs. I've seen DOS, multiple forms of UNIX in the 80's and 90s that are just as stable as today's Win 10 or OS X.




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