Please post follow-ups to the "U2-Community" list. The two primary authorities on the origin of the letters "NT" are Dave Cutler and Mark Lucovsky.
Dave Cutler has confirmed the "WNT" = "VMS incremented" urban legend, but Cutler's confirmation isn't very credible, and is probably one of his noted pranks. The credible, but much less fun, story is the version told by Mark Lucovsky, who says that "NT" meant "N ten" architecture, and refers to the RISC chip which was the original platform for "NT OS/2" before moving to the x86 platform. Lucovsky's story is far more credible than Cutler's because the letters "NT" were being used in "NT OS/2" *before* the product name was changed to "Windows NT". Here's a nice little introduction to the world of Messrs Cutler and Lucovsky. Re-assemble the URL below (assuming it gets split into 2 lines by my email program.) http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/evaluation/news/fromms/kanoarchi tect.asp ------ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and confidential information and is intended only for the use of the individual and/or entity identified in the alias address of this message. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby requested not to distribute or copy this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone or return e-mail and delete the original message from your system. ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
