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JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@cks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cks</span></a></span> </p><p>Well, yes. It's Windows NT.</p><p>Everything in the Native API always returns an explicit NTSTATUS separately from (mostly via "out" parameters) actual result values.</p><p>OS/2 was the same, and it's one of the things that Microsoft and IBM did right. Albeit that POSIX Threads got this right, too.</p><p>The dates on all of those show that by the late 1980s people already knew that one could do better than setting errno or the result from one value according to a flag bit.</p><p><a href="https://tty0.social/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsNT</span></a> <a href="https://tty0.social/tags/NativeAPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAPI</span></a></p>
Mike<p>While reading MSDN Library 2001 I came across mention that Exchange Server 5.5 supports AppleTalk. </p><p>I setup Exchange 5.5 and tried to find some version of MIcrosoft Mail for Macintosh that would work and/or do something, but ended up destroying my MacOS 9.2 virtual machine instead.</p><p>I just wanted to bring enterprise-grade mail services to the network :[</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/AppleTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AppleTalk</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsNT</span></a></p>
Mike<p>Microsoft of the 90s: you can't install a database server because your web browser needs to be updated.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsNT</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SQLServer7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SQLServer7</span></a></p>
plaes<p>Was it really only 3 floppy disks? (Windows NT Server version 4.0)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windowsnt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windowsnt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/floppydisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floppydisk</span></a></p>
Ramin HonaryWeird question about Microsoft Excel<p>So I have been wanting to learn more about how to use Microsoft Excel so I can teach other people about some of the more advanced programming techniques. But then I really do not want to burn up all of that disk space just to run Wine and Excel.</p><p>So I got to thinking:</p><ol><li>is there an <strong>older version</strong> of Microsoft Excel I could use instead?</li><li>The “ribbon” UI/UX asside, how far back in time (in Excel software versions) would I have to go before the formula language and cell computation engine became too different from the most recent Excel that it would not be very useful for me as a learning/teaching tool?</li><li>Would it take less disk space to run this in a minimal Windows NT 2000 or Windows XP instance on QEMU than it would take on Wine?</li></ol><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/excel" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Excel</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/microsoftexcel" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MicrosoftExcel</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/msexcel" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MSExcel</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/spreadsheet" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Spreadsheet</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/software" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#software</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/tech" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/linux" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/linuxwine" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LinuxWine</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/qemu" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#QEMU</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/emulation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Emulation</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/windowsxp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WindowsXP</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/windowsnt" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WindowsNT</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/retrocomputing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a></p>
JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@foone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>foone</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cstross</span></a></span> </p><p>And *your* kernel already had a proper access control system that prevents unprivileged processes from overwriting disc volumes directly. (-:</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsNT</span></a></p>
Martin Bishop<p>Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison<br><a href="https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/windows-nt-vs-unix-design" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogsystem5.substack.com/p/win</span><span class="invisible">dows-nt-vs-unix-design</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsNT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel - Here's the Keyboar... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2045029" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arstechnica.com/?p=2045029</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/windows1124h2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windows1124h2</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/windows1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windows1</span></a>.0 <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windows11</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/windows95" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windows95</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/windowsnt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windowsnt</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p>
IT News<p>New Windows 11 build removes ancient, arbitrary 32GB size limit for FAT32 disks - Enlarge / If you've formatted a disk in Windows in the last 30 years, y... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2043819" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arstechnica.com/?p=2043819</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windows11</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/windows95" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windows95</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/windowsnt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windowsnt</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GossiTheDog</span></a></span> </p><p>It's an idea that superficially sounds good, but in practice it has a whole shedload of implementation problems that make it unfeasible as it stands. A précis of just a few:</p><p>1. Drivers for writable persistent storage might not have been loaded yet.<br>2. Your driver might be part of the writable persistent storage stack.<br>3. You really don't want to be writing to a corrupted filesystem before AUTOCHK.<br>4. File access has to be at PASSIVE_LEVEL.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsNT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/DeviceDrivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeviceDrivers</span></a></p>
njsg<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://appdot.net/@mdhughes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mdhughes</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hackers.town/@thegibson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>thegibson</span></a></span> I varies a bit with release, the one I had allowed me to choose a different background, other than blue, with no additional tool. (But I'm not sure of whether it allowed generating a BSOD with user-defined content.) From what I'm reading now, it seems on <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsNT</span></a> one needs "NotMyFault"?</p>
Apple Product Collection<p>Where can we find PowerPC software for Windows NT?</p><p>Perhaps there’s another handsome black laptop we can look to for inspiration…</p><p>(The IBM ThinkPad 800 series was an obscure line of PowerPC-based ThinkPads from the late 90s)</p><p> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/windowsnt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windowsnt</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/powerpc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powerpc</span></a></p>
Apple Product Collection<p>The bad news is there’s almost no application software that natively supports PowerPC.</p><p>The good news is you can run 16-bit x86 apps under Microsoft’s software emulation layer.</p><p>It’s not fast, but Duke Nukem is playable! (Commander Keen had some keyboard issues.)</p><p> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/windowsnt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windowsnt</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/powerpc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powerpc</span></a></p>
Apple Product Collection<p>Windows NT for PowerPC boots!</p><p><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/windowsnt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windowsnt</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/powerpc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powerpc</span></a></p>
Apple Product Collection<p>Copying files!</p><p><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/windowsnt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windowsnt</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/powerpc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powerpc</span></a></p>
Apple Product Collection<p>“This disc contains code to run on Windows NT-compatible PowerPC systems.”</p><p><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/windowsnt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windowsnt</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/powerpc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powerpc</span></a></p>
Apple Product Collection<p>Alright, I’ll bite.</p><p><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/windowsnt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windowsnt</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/powerpc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powerpc</span></a></p>
njsg<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedi.lynnesbian.space/@lynnesbian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lynnesbian</span></a></span> Is there a dialogue like this, but for how, on an amd64 <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsNT</span></a> system, System32 has the amd64 binaries and SysWOW64 has the IA-32 ones?</p>
ricardo :mastodon:<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsNT</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NetWare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetWare</span></a> on <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PARISC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PARISC</span></a>, and a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/HPUX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HPUX</span></a> port to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/x86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>x86</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.openpa.net/windows_netware_pa-risc.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openpa.net/windows_netware_pa-</span><span class="invisible">risc.html</span></a></p>
IT News<p>“Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11 - Enlarge / If you've formatted a disk in Windows in the last 30 years, y... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2012379" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arstechnica.com/?p=2012379</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windows11</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/windows95" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windows95</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/windowsnt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windowsnt</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p>
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