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Apparently not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Naming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Naming
by irb 3y ago
Apparently not
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Naming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Naming
- edgyquant 3y agoWhat exactly do you think this page says and what is part of that comment is “apparently not” in response to?
- thaumasiotes 3y agoHere's what the page says: > It has been suggested that Dave Cutler intended the initialism "WNT" as a play on VMS, incrementing each letter by one. However, the project was originally intended as a follow-on to OS/2 and was referred to as "NT OS/2" before receiving the Windows brand. One of the original NT developers, Mark Lucovsky, states that the name was taken from the original target processor—the Intel i860, code-named N10 ("N-Ten"). I can't figure out what this is referring to, though. Maybe you can do better.
- blagie 3y agoThe history, as I recall it: - VMS developer develops WNT, playfully incrementing each letter of his prior OS from former employer, based on similar concepts. - Corporate lawyers. - Obvious explanation vehemently denied. - Alternative explanations abound. You can believe what you want. I chose Occam's Razor.