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The Windows 2000 boot screen said "Built on NT Technology". I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that. So annoying.

• freehunter 14y ago
  Officially, NT doesn't stand for anything (just like the RT in Windows RT doesn't stand for anything). One of the NT developers said that it was derived from the target processor, the Intel N-Ten chip. Microsoft marketing declared it "New Technology", but that quickly went away and the official word is that it's just a couple letters thrown together. The "Built on NT technology" boot screen does not mean "Built on New Technology technology".
  • rahoulb 14y ago
    I'd heard that "Windows NT" was one step on from VMS (as most of the original NT team had worked on VMS)
    • tarabukka 14y ago
      Windows NT is an entirely different codebase to the MSDOS based Windows 9x series; it isn't simply a marketing name. Comparable to Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X.
      • freehunter 14y ago
        Of course NT is completely different, I apologize if my comment made it seem that I was arguing that point. NT is the name for the latest kernel, but New Technology was a marketing term used to describe the reasoning for the name. In actuality, NT stands for nothing officially. New Technology was just what the marketers decided on, for a limited period of time.