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
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
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