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Developer ports Windows NT to Power Macintosh systems — firmware and boot loader now available (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

To expand, Windows NT was originally a microkernel system where all the drivers were in userspace. This is more stable but ended up being very slow. With NT 4, they started moving drivers into the kernel and it was really buggy in the beginning. It wasn’t until NT 4 SP3 that it was usable.

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