Windows NT

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Windows NT 4.0 Workstation with Internet Explorer开机屏幕

新技术视窗操作系统（Windows NT），是美国微软公司1991年推出的操作系统。

Windows NT是基于OS/2 NT的基础编制的。OS/2是由微软和IBM联合研制，分为微软的Microsoft OS/2 NT与IBM的IBM OS/2。协作后来不欢而散，IBM继续向市场提供先前的OS/2版本，而微软则把自己的OS/2 NT的名称改为Windows NT，即第一代的Windows NT 3.1。Windows NT是纯32位操作系统，采用先进的NT核心技术。NT即新技术(New Technology)。

微软公司从数字设备公司（Digital Equipment Corporation）雇佣了一批人员来开发这个新系统。这个系统的很多元素反映了早期的带有VMS和RSX-11的DEC概念。

Windows NT获得了比OS/2更大的成功，因为它那永远不能完全了解的特性和微软的市场威力。

下面是微软发布的Windows NT的主要版本：

• Microsoft Windows NT 3.1
• Microsoft Windows NT 3.5
• Microsoft Windows NT 3.51
• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

从5.0版开始，Windows NT只是简单地称为Windows了，下面的版本是后来的版本：

• Microsoft Windows 2000 (Windows NT 5.0)
• Microsoft Windows XP (Windows NT 5.1)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Windows NT 5.2)

除此之外，下面是未来的版本：

• Microsoft Windows Vista (6.0)

NT意思

NT除了跟上文一樣的解釋New Technology之外，有另一個版本指NT是來自於微軟在i860上開發NT時所使用模擬器N10(Ten)

轉自Bink.nu： During a trip to Microsoft's Redmond campus this week, I had the opportunity to meet with Mark Lucovsky, one of the original architects of NT. We had a long discussion about the development and evolution of NT, but one of the more fascinating tidbits he revealed was that NT does not, in fact, stand for "New Technology," as documented in books such as "Showstoppers" and "Inside Windows NT." Instead, the name comes from the earliest days of the product's development, when it was targeted at the Intel i860, a RISC processor. In those days, Intel's chip was behind schedule, so Microsoft had to use an i860 emulator called the N10. NT was so named because it worked on the "N-Ten." I'll have much more information from my meetings with Lucovsky and others involved with Windows Server in the days ahead.

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