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Windows 98! (Score:2)

by ajt (2546)

The brand new Siemens Desiro trains (class 444/450) run by SouthWest Trains are running Windows 3.1 or possibly Windows NT3.1, they have the distintive Windows 3.x era boot screen after what looks like DOS Booting...

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-- "It's not magic, it's work..."
- or. NT 3.51 (Score:1)
  
  by grinder (1100)
  
  It could be Windows NT 3.51, which had a similar look to it. Which was possibly the best OS ever produced by Microsoft. In terms of performance and reliability on the hardware of its era, it was pretty rock solid. If you didn't load it up with flakey device drivers, it just kept on going.
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    by Aristotle (5147)
    
    Then they decided they needed to move the graphics stuff from userland into kernel space in order to make it go fast. Famous last words…
    - Re:or. NT 3.51 (Score:2)
      
      by nicholas (3034) <nwc10+useperl@colon.colondot.net> on 2006.09.27 4:40 (#50475) Homepage Journal
      
      It's fine as long as you like ambient blue lighting for your environment. :-)
      
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