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Guess what OS is on the screen:



Windows 95? ... No.
Windows 98? ... Wrong.
Windows NT? ... Nah.
Windows Me? ... The answer: No.
Windows 2000? ... Are you sure? No, it's not.
Windows XP? ... Of course not.
Windows Vista? ... You are kidding, right?

... The answer is, Windows Neptune, the predecessor of Windows 2000!
You can even download it if you like (the OS) but it can be a copyright infringement...

www.abandonedabw.com

well i knew it was most likely 2k or maybe ME, but ive never heard of the third option

BTW. Windows (codename) Neptune wasn't actually released to public at all.

Also the beta of Windows 95 was called Chicago, also the screens are available (just as normal as Win95, but with some different apps and more 3.x style), and even the download (!).
Vista was nicknamed as Windows Longhorn as in 2002, and also it was released as beta, also you can download it for free or see the screens. It seems just like Windows XP with an more fancey color scheme. No 3D environment I think. I do not like over-active pretty-colour amazingly-smooth 3D operating systems though

Downloading it may be a copyright infringement, but if you want just to try it how it worked, I see no problem.
Also abandonware (3.1x, Win95, 98, old beta versions of OSs) should be declared as free!

Zacariaz wrote:well i knew it was most likely 2k or maybe ME, but ive never heard of the third option

How Windows 2000 and XP got the stability? From NT kernel I suppose Or the DOS subsystem as Win98 did?
WinNT 4.0 is just Win95 without DOS (WinNT 3.1 and 3.51 are looking JUST as Win 3.1x, but this time, its an *full* 32-bit OS!), along NT kernel is more stable, more bugfixes, (almost) no BSOD. In Win9x BSOD can be just a little error, in WinNT (or its successors, 2000 and XP), it is a serious system failure.
Windows ME is something between W98 and W2000, the worst edition of Windows ever seen. Unstable, buggy, no quality OS. Vista = Windows XP + Windows 9x/ME + 3D environment + colourish huge-@$$ desktop

Regards
inflater

i didnt mean i hadnt heard about NT
Still if i hadnt, thanks for the clearification.

Zacariaz wrote:i didnt mean i hadnt heard about NT
Still if i hadnt, thanks for the clearification.

As for Windows NT, perhaps this "Neptune" name is the origin, or the result, of the NT acronym. I have heard two other theories.

1) "New Technology" as advertised. (not much of a "theory")
2) It was taken from the fact that Dave Cutler, co-designer of VMS, also quarterbacked the design of NT. Add one letter to V, M and S and you get W, N, and T... as in Windows NT.

As for the "Chicago" codename, that explains the registry files

I always found this very funny:


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