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SlowTao · 2m ago

I think it was a combination of all a lot of new tech was being dumped on the tail end of Windows 95/98 combined a bit of sloppyness in how it was deployed. Didn't help seeing how well Win 2K could handle this stuff with its NT kernel despite coming out before ME.

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