Quoted in PC WeekOnline ("Microsoft: 'significant differences' between NTS, NTW", Norvin Leach, September 10):

Roberts acknowledged that NTS and NTW are included in the same binary file. It was easier to build and test them that way, he said. The setting in the Registry, he said, triggers 48 changes to the kernel. These changes cascade down to 700 additional settings in software outside the kernel.

Would be nice to link to the source, which contains more details: https://landley.net/history/mirror/ms/differences_nt.html

> easily saturate a T-1 connection (1.55M bps) to the Internet -- after which the performance differences become meaningless.

reading this part reminded me of all the plans I'd hear for "the day everyone will have a T1 on their homes"... sigh. and all we got was Facebook.

I don't believe the lack of high speed connectivity is strictly technical, as community fiber initiatives have shown, but rather monopolies seek to outlaw self-sufficiency

everyone have 10x T1 in their pockets and none of the good ideas survived, was my point.

next they will sell us a chip in the brain and all we will get is still Facebook.

Workstation had a limit[1] of 10 where server had a limit of 5000.

[1] I don’t remember the details but often workstation had soft limits compared to server. There were hexedit ways around them.