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Built on NT Technology
Doesn't NT mean New Technology? Making this "Built on New Technology Technology"??
"Most asked question: What does "NT" stand for? As far as I know it stands for New Technology. What does "Windows" stand for? I can not answer that here!"
- from http://www.ntsecrets.com/info/whatisit.htm
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Nice read even though I've read most of it somewhere else. I forgot a lot.
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I could have sworn NT stands for:
Windows: No Thanks
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Another legend has it as being a shift forward from NT's VMS roots, VMS=WNT.
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mac.goodies webstore / Switched to an iBook in November 2002. Never looking back.
iBook R.I.P. 20 Nov 2002 - 2 Aug 2005
Hello Leopard! On iMac 17" Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz 2GB, iPod 5th gen 30GB and iPhone
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Originally posted by voodoo:
Doesn't NT mean New Technology? Making this "Built on New Technology Technology"??
Yeah, I've always thought that was pretty goofy. But typical of Microsoft.
Of course, (for example) OS X 10.3 isn't much better, given that it actually reads: OS Ten Ten point 3.
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NT actually stands for Northern Telecom but Microsoft licensed it and in the Windows sense stands for New Technology. Its also interesting to note its heritage
RSX -> VMS -> ELN -> NT all major designs of David Cutler
Also VMS +1 letter = WNT (Windows NT) :-) (aka HAL and IBM in 2001)
Another theory is that the NT acronym orginally came from the Engineers working on it. The acronym stands for N-Ten, the code name for the i860 chip that NT was being tested on.
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Thought for a minute you were posting the Win2K leaked source. 
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That funny you mentioned that. Just the other day, my friend was over, who is a windoze 2000 junkie, and I pointed it out to him as my puter booted up. 
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Same reason why retards use "HIV virus," "AIDS syndrom," and "TCBY Yogerts."
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you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Originally posted by CRASH HARDDRIVE:
Yeah, I've always thought that was pretty goofy. But typical of Microsoft.
Of course, (for example) OS X 10.3 isn't much better, given that it actually reads: OS Ten Ten point 3.
Not to mention OS X doesn't hold a candle to Windows 2000 in terms of usability 
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Originally posted by Link:
Not to mention OS X doesn't hold a candle to Windows 2000 in terms of usability
Do you use some kind of a randomizer app to determine your posts for you??
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Originally posted by voodoo:
Do you use some kind of a randomizer app to determine your posts for you??
It's long been established that it's just a really crappy perl script.
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Kind of like PIN number, then? Some local reporter on the local news here did a report on protecting your "PIN numbers!" Gott protect the PIN NUMBERS, bad guys are gonna steal the PIN NUMBERS. She said it so many times I wrote her an e-mail. She thanked me for being interested in her grammar. And that's about it for my story of grammatical redundancy.
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You guys remember when Microsoft went after all the people who had NT in their domain names, like NThelp.com, NTresource.com, etc. claiming it was violating their trademark? I pointed out that Apple had the Laserwriter NT way before MS got their hands on the letters!
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Originally posted by Link:
Not to mention OS X doesn't hold a candle to Windows 2000 in terms of usability
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Originally posted by ryju:
NT actually stands for Northern Telecom but Microsoft licensed it and in the Windows sense stands for New Technology. Its also interesting to note its heritage
RSX -> VMS -> ELN -> NT all major designs of David Cutler
Also VMS +1 letter = WNT (Windows NT) :-) (aka HAL and IBM in 2001)
Another theory is that the NT acronym orginally came from the Engineers working on it. The acronym stands for N-Ten, the code name for the i860 chip that NT was being tested on.
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I believe you are correct regarding the N-Ten abbreviation for NT.
Finally, it was time to start writing some code. "We checked the first code pieces in around mid-December 1988," Lucovsky said, "and had a very basic system kind of booting on a simulator of the Intel i860 (which was codenamed "N-Ten") by January." In fact, this is where NT actually got its name, Lucovsky revealed, adding that the "new technology" moniker was added after the fact in a rare spurt of product marketing by the original NT team members. "Originally, we were targeting NT to the Intel i860, a RISC processor that was horribly behind schedule. Because we didn't have any i860 machines in-house to test on, we used an i860 simulator. That's why we called it NT, because it worked on the 'N-Ten.'"
Source: http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/...r2k3_gold1.asp
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Originally posted by olePigeon:
Same reason why retards use "HIV virus," "AIDS syndrom," and "TCBY Yogerts."
And "ATM machine." 
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.
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