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  • 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 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.

      • I originally thought it was NT3.xx too - I didn't think they could be stupid enough to run a train on Windows 3.1. It's the old blue Windows boot screen, pre Windows 95 or Windows NT4 for sure. However I'm tempted to believe it's actually an older DOS based version of Windows, because after the BIOS POST sequence you see a lot of DOS style text stuff going on before the Windows boot screen, and the application it's self looks like a DOS application anyway...

        Windows NT 3.51 was pretty stable. Version 4 is faster, ran on more hardware, but not that stable. 2K looks prettier and runs better on notebooks but it's carrying eye-candy baggage. XP looks awful, is a resource pig and is about a secure as a chocolate tea pot.

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