Opennt 4.5

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Myz Headlee

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Aug 4, 2024, 1:45:52 PM8/4/24

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Andof course the different branding during setup. One of the nice things about OpenNT is that it can format filesystems directly as NTFS, instead of the old way of first creating a FAT partition, and converting it to NTFS. This ought to bypass all the limitations of disk/partition sizes for the older NT.

Running OpenNT 4.5 on VMWare seemed to run the Win32 stuff okay, although Win16/WOW stuff immediately crashed, and MS-DOS was incredibly slow with screen redraw issues. I know that NT 4.0 builds prior to SP 6 have issues with many newer emulation/hypervisors even when CPU levels are set to regular Pentium.

One of the developers, Stephanos, holds the domain opennt.net, he had discontinued the project and the website redirects to his website.

I do not work with the project either, my website opennt.eu serves as an archive.

Vetusware has old source, I am surprised they managed to get the toolchain working on it to be honest

I wonder why none of the Win9x/Win3x sources have ever leaked. Although much has been said about its relative technological inferiority in comparison to NT, it would still be interesting to have a look at how worked internally.