The
released version of
Windows 2000, after many
beta cycles and three
release candidate cycles was build
2195.2. It was extremely similar to RC 3. You can see this on an install of
Windows 2000 server (RTM version). It had been around in many previous incarnations as beloved
Windows NT 5.0.
Windows NT 5.0 was an excellent, incredibly
stable early version of
Windows 2000, a couple of years before marketing pulled the "year" numbering scheme from the consumer Windows and tacked it on to NT. We had this build dropped from the
Windows 98 beta time frame.
NT 5 was really just NT 4 with many of the bugs
fixed, and minor architectural changes built in. It was what I
ran for quite a
while, before moving back to
Windows 95 for device support. Windows 2000 had pieces that were 7 years in the making I heard. From what I can tell it was well worth it. All in all, an
excellent OS. I figure if it doesn't flinch at my non-kernel
development, it's got to be
stable.