> That didn't turn out to be true
Define "true".
As someone who had the experience of 9x and NT-based MS OSes... the problem was (and still is) the wast amount of hardware variants what Windows* run on. Compared to a very small variation of the "big systems", where you can actually chase and weed out the hardware related bugs, NT-based were quite stable.
Anecdata: I run 2003 on Tualeron based system (TUSL-2C) which was or severly overclocked or underclocked but with a minimal cooling, ie not with a stable hardware down to the most important parts: CPU and RAM. I saw enough program crashes yet the system continued to run, for weeks and months. Wish I saved my best uptimes when uptime-project closed down...
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