operating system (Windows New Technology, NT)
Microsoft's
joint development of OS/2. NT was designed for high end
Advanced Server), and corporate networks (NT 4.0 Enterprise
Unlike
Windows 3.1, which was a graphical environment that
ran on top of
MS-DOS, Windows NT is a complete operating
system. To the user it looks like Windows 3.1, but it has
It is based on a
microkernel, with 32-bit addressing for up
to 4Gb of
RAM, virtualised hardware access to fully protect
applications, installable file systems, such as
FAT,
HPFSNT is also designed to be hardware independent. Once the
- has been ported to a particular machine, the rest of the
operating system should theorertically compile without
alteration. A version of NT for
DEC's
Alpha machines was
planned (September 1993).
NT needs a fast
386 or equivalent, at least 12MB of
RAM(preferably 16MB) and at least 75MB of free disk space.
(2002-06-10)