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Windows NT / Windows Alive

Windows NT / Windows
KindOperating system
Appeared1993
StatusAlive
CreatorDavid Cutler team / Microsoft
FamilyWindows
Platformx86, ARM, formerly MIPS/Alpha/PPC
Sourcewww.microsoft.com ↗

Cutler brought VMS's instincts to Microsoft's kernel — the line that unified with consumer Windows in XP and still runs the world's desktops.

Influenced by OpenVMS
Created by Dave Cutler Microsoft
Predecessors Windows (classic)

Dave Cutler's team shipped Windows NT 3.1 in 1993 — a portable, preemptive, protected-mode OS with the Win32 personality on top, HAL below, and no DOS anywhere. It was a VMS descendant in disguise; 'WNT' is 'VMS' shifted one letter.\n\nNT 4.0 (1996) made it the server standard; the kernel now underlies every current Windows — XP unified consumer/NT in 2001.

Sources

  1. microsoft.com/windows
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT