Windows Nt facts
While investigating facts about Windows Nt 6.1 and Windows Ntp Server, I found out little known, but curios details like:
In 1998, a US Navy warship became dead in the water after the Navy opted to run the ship on Windows NT 4.0 instead of a more fitting OS. A sailor unknowingly divided by zero, causing an overflow error and killing the entire ship.
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In 1998, on the USS Yorktown, a test platform for the U.S. Navy's Smart Ship program that ran on Windows NT, a sailor entered a zero into a database field, resulting in a divide-by-zero crash that disabled the ship entirely.
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The BIOS of Windows NT 4 (95, 98, 2000) plays classical music when it thinks the CPU fan is dying.
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Fallout was originally denied an approval from Microsoft to mark it as supported on windows 95, under the claim that it didn't "fail gracefully" on windows NT. The reason for the latter is that Fallout, on fact, worked on Windows NT
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Fallout 1 failed Windows 95 certification because it ran on Windows NT. The installer was modified to check for Windows NT, and if present, fail to install.
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The NT Kernel had an emulation layer for x86 16 bit applications that worked on every platform Windows NT was released for (MIPS, Alpha, PPC). Because of this most applications of the era were written targeting x86-16 to be multi-platform.
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From Windows NT to Windows XP, typing in the sentence "bush hid the facts" (or any sentence with all lowercase letters and the same word lengths) would result in a mishmash of nonsense Chinese characters. This issue also occurs with the string "a ".
