[Scgeeks] Re: Opinion wanted on new PC

[Ant]

"indigo" wrote:

> AndrewB wrote:
>> Win98 and Win2000 (or any Windows NT derivative) aren't even close to
>> being similar in terms of architecture of the kernel, multi-tasking,
>> and a host of other details.
>
> Really? What about the diff between Win2000 and XP or Vista?

Win 3.x, 95, 98 and ME are all basically a fancy extension to some
version of MS-DOS (which is the underlying operating system).

NT, which started with NT 3.0, is a completely different OS. It is
not built upon MS-DOS. I belive the original idea was the W9x line
was for home users but NT was for servers and corporates. Then MS
decided that everyone would use NT and the W9x development was
stopped.

The branding of NT versions is as follows:

NT 5.0 = Win 2000
NT 5.1 = XP
NT 5.2 = Win 2003 server
NT 6.0 = Vista

> All my drives were converted to NFTS while I did it the 98 -2k update.

NTFS is the file system for NT that replaced FAT on MS-DOS but you can
still operate with FAT on NT. I run Win2k on FAT 32.