Booting Windows NT 4 on a DEC Multia
NT 4 prepared Win32 for synchronization with Windows 95. I hated it for that: they moved the presentation layer into the kernel (to allow features like "Active Desktop" widgets) which negatively impacted reliability and security for years to come.<p>Windows NT 3.1 and 3.5 were much more reliable. The CD-ROM's containing the OS from MSDN came with the Microsoft C/C++ compiler on it, somewhere they even added Visual Studio 1.0.<p>There was hardly any client software for MIPS and Alpha, but the i386 versions ran 16 bit versions of Ami Pro, Excel and Mosaic well. Which is probably why MIPS and Alpha NT versions never became popular, despite the fact that they were very fast for the time.