Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
An OS from microsoft based on OS/2 Warp from IBM. Its decendents are 2k, xp, etc.
Originally posted by: SonicIce
everyone has a differant answer
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Not really, the same thing has been reiterated in almost every post.
Windows NT is the core that Win2K, XP and Longhorn were built upon.
NT was a joint venture between IBM and MS to create a replacement for OS/2 but the deal fell through and each continued to work on their respective projects. MS then released NT 3.1 followed by NT 3.51 both of which had the Win 3.11 UI but were fully 32-bit preemptive multitasking OSes. Then NT 4.0 was released with the Win95 UI, NT 5.0 was renamed to Win2000 and NT 5.1 was released as WinXP. Longhorn was originally going to be NT 6.0, but they've pulled so much out I wouldn't be surprised if it was released as NT 5.5.
The NT acronym has been rumored to mean a couple of different things, one of which was "New Technology" which is what Budman was speaking about. Although I believe the official stance by MS is that it stands for nothing and is just a brand now, otherwise the bootup screen of Win2K that says "Based on NT Technology" would be a little redundant.
Originally posted by: Budman
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Not really, the same thing has been reiterated in almost every post.
Windows NT is the core that Win2K, XP and Longhorn were built upon.
NT was a joint venture between IBM and MS to create a replacement for OS/2 but the deal fell through and each continued to work on their respective projects. MS then released NT 3.1 followed by NT 3.51 both of which had the Win 3.11 UI but were fully 32-bit preemptive multitasking OSes. Then NT 4.0 was released with the Win95 UI, NT 5.0 was renamed to Win2000 and NT 5.1 was released as WinXP. Longhorn was originally going to be NT 6.0, but they've pulled so much out I wouldn't be surprised if it was released as NT 5.5.
The NT acronym has been rumored to mean a couple of different things, one of which was "New Technology" which is what Budman was speaking about. Although I believe the official stance by MS is that it stands for nothing and is just a brand now, otherwise the bootup screen of Win2K that says "Based on NT Technology" would be a little redundant.
Why arent you Elite yet.
Originally posted by: BikeDude
NT shares more heritage with Digital VMS.
Hint: Look at where MS hired NT's main designer (Dave Cutler) from. Plus, of course, the bonus game where you shift the letters in "VMS" one position to the right. (and final piece of the puzzle-- the first defragmentation utility for NTFS came from a company that started making such utils for VMS' filesystem)
NT shares more heritage with Digital VMS.
Originally posted by: Nothinman
And really, the only things that work like VMS are deep internals anyway
Originally posted by: Stumps
easy way to put it is, WIN NT is WIN 95 with all the user friendly bits removed
Originally posted by: BikeDude
Originally posted by: Stumps
easy way to put it is, WIN NT is WIN 95 with all the user friendly bits removed
No. NT 3.1 shipped in 1993, two years before Win95. It has absolutely nothing in common with Windows Toystation.
Originally posted by: Stumps
and to the average user(eg mum and dad) it looks like Win95 with all the fun bits removed
Originally posted by: BikeDude
But XP is NT 5.2 and has all the fun bits intact? (even added a few *shudder*)
Who cares about the UI that the user sees? It has no bearing on how an OS feels or performs. The deep internals OTOH do.
Originally posted by: Nothinman
It absolutely does have a bearing on how the OS feels and performs, if the window manager is slow and laggy it doesn't matter how quick the kernel reacts to requests.