NT 4.0 Workstation

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 is one of the most powerful 32-bit operating systems available for business computing today. It offers the ease of use of Windows 95 along with higher performance, greater reliability, and better security. One of the most remarkable aspects of Windows NT's architecture is that portions of the operating system--the subsystems--run in user-mode processes alongside application processes. The subsystems provide the environments in which applications run. The Win32 subsystem provides the application program …

…drives, folders, and even individual files you want to compress. Windows NT Workstation 4.0 isn't for everybody. It isn't 100-percent compatible with all the software you can run under Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, and it's a lot fussier about hardware. Laptop users and heavy gamers are particularly likely to find NT Workstation 4.0 unsuitable. The cost of NT Workstation 4.0 is $319, which is an attractive proposal for some people who want a faster or more stable environment than Windows 95.