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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 ...

The newest version of the Windows operating system will at last consolidate two discrete software code bases currently being marketed by Microsoft . For Microsoft , supporting two separate ...

When Windows NT originally launched it had ports to a wide variety of platforms, ... Memory access was left as direct access, meaning no sandboxing or isolation, for simplicity’s sake.

Using Windows NT like a central, timeshared computer with terminals. Citrix developed this method with its WinFrame software and subsequently worked with Microsoft to create Windows Terminal ...

The Windows NT family lives on to this day in some of the core components of Windows 10. Click to enlarge. ... When you say "Windows as a service," this is what you mean.

commentary On 30 June, 2003, Microsoft withdrew support for Windows New Technology (NT). Windows NT users no longer have the right to download updates to Internet Explorer and will not get a patch ...

These features mean that the Windows NT kernel was designed to be flexible and extensible from the start, in contrast to the approach taken by many UNIX systems, ...

The source code for Windows NT 3.5, as well as the original Xbox gaming console, has leaked online. ... this leak doesn't mean that you can fire up your old Xbox games on newer hardware.

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.

Formatting disks "was just one of those areas where Windows NT was different enough from Windows 95 that we had to come up with some custom UI," wrote Plummer on X, formerly Twitter.