[Info-vax] Trivia Question about Windows NT

[Neil Rieck]

On Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 8:52:22 PM UTC-4, john... at triangleexperience.com wrote:
> Anyone ever hear of the old story about where Windows NT got its name, and who purportedly gave it that name?

The book "Showstopper!" claims "NT" means "New Technology". Cutler and his DECies at M$ were experimenting with a new machine architecture and had a prototype working. Somehow these ideas were formally passed back to Intel which made it into Pentium.

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario.