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Thread #136490   Message #3117816
Posted By: Bernard
20-Mar-11 - 07:17 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Need Srv Pack 3 CD for Windows 2000 Pro
Subject: RE: Tech: Need Srv Pack 3 CD for Windows 2000 Pro
No, John, I beg to differ! Not that it really matters(!!), but Windows 2000 was really a flavour of NT (NT5, I think?). Windows ME was the 'domestic' one... which, despite the hype, was merely a stopgap between 98 and XP Home, and quite unstable.

Windows 7, Vista and XP also have 'Pro' versions, but the 'domestic' OS list is as I gave it.

I have a copy (on the original issue floppies) of Windows 2 somewhere - it was bundled with a Goldstar 386 along with MS-Dos 4 (point something), which was an unmitigated disaster!

There was, briefly, Windows 3 mounted on MS-Dos 5.x before MS-Dos 6.22 eventually (via 6 and 6.20) became the most stable DOS since 3.3. This was the base for Windows 3.1 (domestic) and 'Windows for Workgroups' 3.11, intended for networking. It could work with NT4 if you downloaded a 32 bit network driver, but most network cards used co-ax 10baseT ethernet, which was slow and flaky.

Do you remember Gem? I have a copy of that somewhere, too!