As I recall, it was W2K which allowed you to change the IP without reboot - one of my favorite features of that OS (and beyond).
-----Original Message----- From: Tony Jones via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Wednesday, 31 July, 2024 01:26 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Cc: Tony Jones <t...@tonyjones.com> Subject: [cctalk] Re: MS-DOS On Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 10:14 PM Jim Brain via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I remember using 3.1, 4.0, and 2000. As I recall, I loved the > stability of 3.1, but the UI was old and outdated, especially when 95 came > out. > 4.0 offered the nicer UI, but the driver situation was still a > problem, I forget at which NT release you could do advanced things like changing the IP address without needing to reboot :-).