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Windows NT had already gone through three released versions: 3.1, 3.5 and 3.51. By the last, it was an extremely solid and fast PC OS – given a high-end PC for 1995, meaning SCSI storage for a ...
What does Windows NT actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.
When Windows NT originally launched it had ports to a wide variety of platforms, ranging from Intel’s x86 and i860 to DEC’s Alpha as well as the MIPS architecture. Running Windows applications ...
What does multiuser NT actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.
Thousands of developers would love the opportunity to turn Windows NT into a masterpiece. So why not release the source code into the open-source community?
Some years back, a new OS was developed from scratch, and it was eventually called Windows NT (NT meaning new technology) and recently updated and renamed Windows 2000.
Following the recent buzz surrounding Windows blue screen of death (BSOD), a Microsoft Windows veteran dev has talked in some detail about its origin going back to Windows 95, NT, and 3.1.
If you're interested in source code for old software, you're in for some good news. The source code for Windows NT 3.5, as well as the original Xbox gaming console, has leaked online.
Every version of Windows represents Microsoft's best effort to accomplish something new and important. Some succeeded, others failed. Ed Bott reviews the milestones.
In context: If you were a Windows user in the '90s, you're likely to be intimately familiar with the iconic Start Menu that shipped with Windows NT. That signature vertical banner proclaiming ...
NTFS, the Windows NT family of file systems, was very advanced for its time, supporting 64-bit addressing, a journaling file system , Unicode file names, and more.