Comment Re:Linus is right, but this is really not news (Score 1) 75
NT also virtualized the DOS environment (ntvdm) where 9x didn't and that is a very important distinction. In th 9x days, games and even drivers were executed in the DOS environment. As soon as you would open command.com, it was a ticking timebomb for when a blue screen would happen. If you could avoid DOS and 16bit memory shimmed binaries, 9x wasn't nearly as fragile as everyone generally dealt with