>I started running NT 3.1 Server when it was first released. Getting drivers for various hardware was a chore, but other than that it ran well and multitasked like a champ (I demo'd a multiuser FPD app to the company brass of my then employer by opening the app about 40 times on the server desktop and editing data and running searches from various instances without missing a beat).
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>Our NT 3.1 server actually was still running when I came back to visit the company in 2000 (I had left in early '94). I was still logged in to the desktop (since '94) because nobody knew my password or the admin password and the machine had never been shut down over the years. It was still being used as a (small) fileserver.


I did not have that experience with NT, in fact I never believed when Microsoft said it was pre-emptive multitasking, as multiple times if one application hang it hang the whole OS, which for me meant that they were still using "Co-Operative" multitasking, thus when the application hang it stop cooperating thus hanging the OS