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wing-_-nuts • today at 2:22 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I remember windows 2000 being pretty rock solid. I used it as my gaming os for years while folks struggled with windows me and windows xp (IIRC, xp did eventually become pretty good)

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fireflash38 • today at 2:25 PM

XP and 7 were only good because it was based off of 2000/NT.

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aleph_minus_one • today at 2:42 PM

> I remember windows 2000 being pretty rock solid.

Windows NT (including Windows 2000) was considered to be a workstation OS by Microsoft. From Windows XP on, the NT-based Windows operating systems (except for the server ones) were targeted to consumers.