Recommendations for Windows NT 4.0 PC?

Eduard

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Hello.
I am currently looking for a suitable PC setup for the Windows NT 4.0 Workstation I want to play around with.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
For an OS that old, my choice would be to run it as a VM in VirtualBox or VMWare Player. Both are free downloads and will run NT 4.0 Workstation very well.
 
I have these two, and they work well. However, what I would like is the experience on actual hardware. :)
 
You would certainly be able to find a machine on Ebay but more than likely the shipping costs would be prohibitive. I would check locally using such services as Craigslist to try and find a 486 or Pentium 1 machine to run that OS on.
 
You would certainly be able to find a machine on Ebay but more than likely the shipping costs would be prohibitive. I would check locally using such services as Craigslist to try and find a 486 or Pentium 1 machine to run that OS on.

You'll have a job finding a 486 or P1 machine I reckon. They're not certainly not every common in the UK where I live. Don't know about America though (and I reckon a 486 is probably too slow even for NT4. It calls for a 486 minimum, so probably runs slow on it).

You could try running it on a P3 machine or a P4 machine, they're more common. Or something like an AMD Duron or an old Athlon. Anything around that era will be OK I think.

Why must you use NT4? On actual hardware it runs pretty much like how it does in a virtual machine...
 
I guess I want to be a bit like the Lazy Game Reviews guy on YouTube. :)
I feel that it is more satisfying to combine the legacy software experience with legacy hardware.
 
Fair enough... look on eBay or at a car boot or something and grab something like a Pentium II or Pentium III box and you should be fine with NT4 on that. :)
 
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