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by hnfong 17 days ago
Ironically Windows XP was the first "consumer" (i.e. not "workstation") Windows version to not crash several times a day.

In the 98/ME era, it was pretty common to reboot every couple hours or the system would randomly do that for you.
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girishso 15 days ago
Didn't they dump old Windows 95 kernel in XP and switched to Windows NT kernel in XP?
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M95D 16 days ago
Ironically, when I overclocked my system beyond it's limits, WinXP would crash on boot, but Win98 would boot just fine and (sometimes) crash later, during the game.
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