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Windows NT was fascinating. If you want to read a great book about it, check out Showstopper.
by lawnchair 2y ago
Windows NT was fascinating. If you want to read a great book about it, check out Showstopper.
- eigenvalue 2y agoThat was a great book, up there with Masters of Doom and The Soul of a New Machine.
- dboreham 2y agoWas ?
- badgersnake 2y agoDunno why this is getting downvoted. Modern Windows is still very much a Windows NT derivitive.
- redox99 2y agoIs it a derivative? I'd say it's the latest version of Windows NT.
- badgersnake 2y agoIt’s the same codebase that was my point. Whether it’s still called Windows NT or whether that name died in the 90s can probably be argued either way.
- lizknope 2y agoI think XP is when the DOS based Win95/98/ME was merged with NT
- mewse-hn 2y agoThe Win95 line wasn't really merged, more discontinued. XP had improved DOS/legacy compatibility vs win2000 but not much.
- Dwedit 2y agoIt was never merged. The DOS-based Windows series was just replaced. Windows 2000 could have just as easily been the OS that replaced the DOS-based Windows series, it was user-friendly and functional enough.
- nullindividual 2y agoThe marketing and front-facing name clearly died. The internal name did not.
- sedatk 2y agoNT is still the name of the kernel. (ntoskrnl.exe)
- mycall 2y agoI wonder if that is still true for Azure OS.
- pjmlp 2y agoKind of, https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-os-platform-blog/azure-host-os-cloud-host/ba-p/3709528 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-os-platform-b... However plenty of Azure infrastructure uses Linux as well, https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sonic-the-networking-switch-software-that-powers-the-microsoft-global-cloud/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sonic-the-networking-...
- marshray 2y agoMuch of that pre-2000 code remains. But so much more has been added in the last 1/4 century that "the same codebase" is somewhat a matter of perspective.
- pndy 2y agoThat's still the same NT line tho they changed how versions are called after Windows 8.1 which was NT 6.3. Initial Windows 10 release was bumped to NT 10.0 but further versions use year-month and year-half year formats [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_vers...
- Kwpolska 2y agoThe kernel version number stopped having any meaning in 2000.
- Hnrobert42 2y agoOften people conjugate based on their perspective. As in, it was a great book at the they read it.