@esoterik said:
@RogerWilco said:
...Best example and WTF I have seen, was when I learned that 40% of our Dutch national electricity grid was controlled by an Excel'95 spreadsheet running on Windows NT SP3, because it broke on anything newer and the "developer" had left over 10 years ago. This was as recent as 2007.
That story is just crazy enough that it is probably more true than anyone wants to belive. They are going to have a real fun time when that PC finally gives out, i mean what are the chances of windows NT installing - at all - on modern hardware? I was building a test machine a year or so ago and i wanted to put all the operating systems that we supported on it. Turns out that the Win2k installer would crash and reset on the (new, preinstalled w/vista) PC i tried; i guess it didn't like something about the hardware.
By "NT" I'm going to assume we're talking Windows NT 4.0. Even when it was the current platform getting it to install out of the box on anything without blue screening was a real gamble. Most of NT4's installation issues were over storage controller drivers so I'm going to guess just like back then it should install ok on modern hardware as long as you can F6 a stable storage controller driver during setup.