Amiga Multitask

[commodorejohn]

95 was a huge advancement over 3.1, but it was sorta only halfway to NT, so it wasn't particularly stable as a result. Light as hell, though, for modern 32-bit Windows. 98 and 98SE were heavier by quite a bit, but also much stabler.

2000 I've been playing around with, and I'm quite impressed at how light and responsive it is, and solid as a rock; I wish this had been the OS that took off and gained popularity rather than XP, then there'd be better, newer hardware I could run it on.

[commodorejohn]

Also people always say Win2000 is better than XP but unless you only had 64mb (a paltry amount in 2002 when XP was in use) it booted faster and thrashed the disk a lot less than 2000 on all the 100s of laptops I tried it on over the decade of sales of computers and laptops I managed. Don't ask me why.

I've been using Win2K on a 1GB Pentium III laptop for several months now, and it doesn't thrash the disk in the slightest. I could probably even turn off paging entirely, come think...