30 Oct
2005
30 Oct
'05
9:03 p.m.
You're right that "N-Ten" was originally the name of the simulator, but
it was based on the code name of the processor which is "N10". It was
later (incorrectly) adapted by the "community" as a name for the
processor itself...
- Filip
"Originally, we were targeting NT to the Intel i860 (code-named
'N-Ten'), a RISC processor
<http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winserver2k3_gold1.asp#> 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.'"
~ Mark Lucovsky
Alex Ionescu wrote:
It's not New Technology, nor Nothern Telecom, not
Needs Terabytes
neither Not There.
It does stand for N-Ten, but that's not the codename for the i860.
It's the name of the simulator that was used since
i860 didn't really exist while MS was working on the OS.
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
[snip]
That's just MS marketing propaganda. It was
originally sorthand for
N-Ten, which is code name for Intel i860 processor the first NT
version was targeted at.
- Filip