[Scgeeks] Re: Opinion wanted on new PC

[C. S.]

Sometime around Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:12:35 -0000, "Ant" <not at home.today> deemed it
necessary to offer:

> "Mark Geary" wrote:
> 
> > In article <fkcce4$edi$1 at news.spamcop.net>, Ant <not at home.today> wrote:
> >> NT, which started with NT 3.0, is a completely different OS. It is
> >> not built upon MS-DOS. I belive the original idea was the W9x line
> >> was for home users but NT was for servers and corporates. Then MS
> >> decided that everyone would use NT and the W9x development was
> >> stopped.
> >
> > Didn't NT start out as the next version of OS/2 before the falling out
> > between MS and IBM?
> 
> Apparently that was the original intention in the days of win 3.x.
> What I wrote above is opinion based on observing the way MS has
> marketed Windows since then.
> 

If I'm not mistaken, NT 3 was actually in use before Win95 even
hit the market. It seemed to have been spawned from Win3.x,
at least from a GUI standpoint. Wasn't it also a 16-bit OS,
with NT 4 being the 32-bit?

I've also heard it said, from several sources, that "NT" was a moniker
meant to indicate "New Technology."