19 engineers on Hacker News describe using Windows NT first-hand: 6 endorse it, 3 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“NT made all that disappear. RAM was just RAM, each DOS session got all of a virtual instance's RAM dedicated just to it”
endorse · production · lproven · 2024-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then we moved to Windows NT and complexity, and albeit security, increased significantly.”
regret · personal · datavirtue · 2023-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We had one for a "high availability" file server from Compaq and always regretted it”
regret · production · Sylamore · 2023-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our 1999 capex and opex was 25% of what it was in 1996 and we delivered more benefits to our users.”
endorse · production · 3 yr · unxdfa · 2023-02-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The two people who used the NT machines was a guy who loved Windows and me who hated Windows”
regret · production · PaulHoule · 2022-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“NT 3.1 was used in production, because it was so much better than Windows 3.1... the GUI put them off. NT 4 fixed that”
mixed · production · lproven · 2021-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been managing fleets of Windows machines since NT 3.51 ... It's all about knowing the tools well.”
endorse · production · 23 yr · teh_klev · 2018-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“nt felt much more mature”
endorse · production · iforgotpassword · 2018-07-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A dual-CPU Pentium Pro with Fire GL Pro absolutely smoked the O2 and Indy machines it replaced.”
endorse · production · honkhonkpants · 2016-08-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It helped me with my productivity but it did take a long time for the applications to catch up with the OS.”
mixed · production · epalmer · 2016-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we switched to NT4, the vast improvement in reliable uptime was a breath of fresh air”
endorse · production · captaincrowbar · 2013-05-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was working in IT and I deployed NT 3.1 in production in 1993.”
neutral · production · lproven · 2026-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had to run NT4 on a 4100 in prod at my very first Internet startup job.”
neutral · production · nyrikki · 2026-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We did use NT/2K internally but that was because we had some who insisted on using SMB via Windows.”
neutral · production · greedo · 2026-04-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Microsoft wasn't super interested or able to optimize Windows to run on Alpha.”
neutral · production · mosburger · 2023-05-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“with NT4 it pretty much replaced Netware on file/print servers”
neutral · production · tssva · 2021-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been on a boat that used NT4 for stupid office tasks and HP-UX somewhere in the actual Combat Control System.”
neutral · production · mpyne · 2013-02-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'd worked with Windows 95, 98, 3.11, NT 4”
neutral · personal · cmkrnl · 2010-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We retired our last OS/2 & NT 3.51 server this year but still have a few NT4 machines.”
neutral · production · jsz0 · 2010-09-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?