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The current version of Windows is based on the NT kernel which was written from scratch starting in 1989.

• kps 12y ago
  … starting in 1986, at DEC, when it was called MICA.
  • Someone1234 12y ago
    Nonsense. There is zero lines of code from Mica in NT. However the same people did design both Mica and NT. Namely Dave Cutler and his team of ex DEC engineers who got fired when the DEC PRISM project was closed (of which Mica was a core part). By the logic of your argument Linux wasn't started in 1991, it was started in 1969 and called Unix originally... Even if both where independently developed.
    • jacquesm 12y ago
      DEC sued MS for a hefty sum and settled out of court for the IP that Cutler took and passed on to MS so at some level there is Mica stuff in NT or else MS would have probably won that suit. Part of the arrangement was that MS would issue NT for the Alpha architecture, which in fact they did.
      • Someone1234 12y ago
        Irrelevant. The above comment claimed: > … starting in 1986, at DEC, when it was called MICA. Which isn't accurate. NT definitely contains ideas and maybe protected trade secrets from DEC, that's just inevitable when you hire all of DEC's former team to build your new OS. But it is a massive leap to then go on to claim that NT was in fact Mica or that NT was started years earlier because that is when Mica was. See my Linux example. If you think that NT is Mica then Linux is Unix.
        • gaius 12y ago
          Further evidence: NT was first booted on the Intel i860 - not a DEC CPU.
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