On Nov 18, 2005, at 16:46, Chris Devers wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Ben Tilly wrote: > >> On 11/18/05, John Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:16:18PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: >> [...] >>> However, as I recall, NT was being developed for the Alpha at >>> one point - I think it was available commercially for a while >>> and not just internal to MS. Not to surprising, actually, >>> since a large chunk of the original NT design team was hired >>> away from DEC (Dave Cutler et al). >> [...] >> >> This is true. >> >> It is an amusing irony that one of the initial design goals for NT was >> to be highly portable to different chip architectures, while Linux was >> designed to take full advantage of 386-specific features. > > Just as... > > IBM <- HAL > > ...also try... > > VMS -> WNT > > And why did NT start at 3.5? Supposedly, because some government > contract specified that they could requisition any version of Novell > or any version of Windows "higher" than 3.11.
The first Windows NT was 3.1. -- Andrew Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
