#Scala Saves Time
I am presently running Windows NT 3.5 Workstation on one of my PC's.
It is a 486-33 w/ 16 MB RAM and 2.5 GB of hard drive space. Disk size
is so high because it is also the backup system for some SQL Server
databases on another NT box.
NT 3.1 got a lot of bad press because it deserved it. Then Micros**t
hired Dave Cutler to head the NT project team. Dave Cutler invented
VMS on the VAX. If you have ever used VMS, then you know that it is
an "empowering" OS like the Amiga's is. Cutler pushed the development
team to shrink the code, speed it up, and make it more robust.
Amazingly, for a MS OS product, they succeeded. The biggest remaining
problem is picky installation. But once installed, it is fast,
robust, nearly uncrashable, and resource requirement are not
unrealistic by today's standards. My company is buying RAM for $45/MB
and hard drives for 40 cents/MB. And you can set it as backwards
compatible as you want. Mine is almost not at all, because I have
five other PC's, four of which run regular Windoze.