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Ask the techies! / System Lockup Issue
« on: April 26, 2002, 11:30:29 AM »
I was going to post something along those lines, but You did a great job for me Spade.
The short of it...
Windows 2000 was built using the kernal and HAL from Windows NT 4.0. They improved stability and MANY other things. Yes, Unix is still a more stable OS, but then look at the differences in time and approaches.
Windows XP is built on the Win2K kernal and HAL. with a great many improvements to those items. M$ has kept the backward compatible rule, thus making XP able to run MOST 2K drivers, but not all. But this is also one of the greatest causes for the general stability issues for M$ OSes.
Thus they are built on NT technology, but the XP server will be a different beast of it's own. Supposedly.
I am now contemplating the purchase of a VisionTek Xtasy 6964. Which is a GeForce3 Titanium Ti 500 64m AGP card. That takes me from a generation2 card to a generation3 (yes, it's still one generation back, but it's not too expensive, and better than the geforce4 MX), moves me from SDR to DDR, and doubles my RAM.
The short of it...
Windows 2000 was built using the kernal and HAL from Windows NT 4.0. They improved stability and MANY other things. Yes, Unix is still a more stable OS, but then look at the differences in time and approaches.
Windows XP is built on the Win2K kernal and HAL. with a great many improvements to those items. M$ has kept the backward compatible rule, thus making XP able to run MOST 2K drivers, but not all. But this is also one of the greatest causes for the general stability issues for M$ OSes.
Thus they are built on NT technology, but the XP server will be a different beast of it's own. Supposedly.
I am now contemplating the purchase of a VisionTek Xtasy 6964. Which is a GeForce3 Titanium Ti 500 64m AGP card. That takes me from a generation2 card to a generation3 (yes, it's still one generation back, but it's not too expensive, and better than the geforce4 MX), moves me from SDR to DDR, and doubles my RAM.