Reply 19220 of 27724, by Caluser2000
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hyoenmadan wrote on 2021-06-16, 19:24:Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-06-15, 17:55:Like getting functional usb support on NT4. Something MickySoft insisted was impossible...
Still is "impossible" to get in NT4 a full working WDM stack. What you get is some monolitic drivers made by Softex, a filial of Phoenix Technologies, which manage the USB bus in a private way, so only the drivers programmed for their internal api work with the stack. You can't use WDM usb drivers with it, nor program enhanced support for it. Even with USBSUPP package, you could in Win95 program limited extra support for some of your hardware, as long as you wanted to do extra VxD helpers for certain stuff which came later built on Win98. You couldn't do that with Softex stack.
Sure, MS could have backported part of the NT5 kernel to NT4 to get some limited WDM like in Win95, but when that support was in production state, NT4 was already on SP5 and they still had to support Alpha platform quirks, so they just decided to no waste time backporting features to an OS in already extended support stage. Specially when such still-in-test stuff wasn't important in enterprise environments back then.
I wondered how long someone would do a search on that and supply a responce. A bit slower than I expected but that is. It's a bit more complicated than that ol bean. I easily managed to get usb drive formated to fat16 or ntfs4. If you put the NT4 usb sticl with ntfs4 into a win2000 or XP box there would convert then to ntfs 5 (without losing your data) unless NT4 had SP6 applied and could read ntfs5 formatted drive. That was on a ye olde Dell system back in the early 200os. It certainly was the outfit you. Was it the first hit on a google search? IIRC it was some German outfit. Clever folks those Germans.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉