> Purportedly codenamed "NT OS/2" during development
Not purportedly, absolutely was. It's in the design docs.
> many people have mistakenly thought "NT" stood for "Network Technology."
Never heard that one. It's always been "New Technology" (which is what it does stand for) or "NTen" after the Intel N10 it was going to ship on.
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Anyways, not much to say about the article. It's short and not very deep.
rasz•4mo ago
> Windows NT 3.1 in 1993 ... Minimum specs called for an 80386 with 12MB of RAM to really breathe — at a time when 4MB of RAM was typical and 8MB was luxurious.
1992 was flood of cheap clones with Am386DX, 486SX / 4 MB ram / VGA / Sound Blaster. Then in 1993 standard became 486 DX2-66 / 8 MB RAM / VLB VGA.
p_ing•4mo ago
Not purportedly, absolutely was. It's in the design docs.
> many people have mistakenly thought "NT" stood for "Network Technology."
Never heard that one. It's always been "New Technology" (which is what it does stand for) or "NTen" after the Intel N10 it was going to ship on.
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Anyways, not much to say about the article. It's short and not very deep.