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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedWindows NT challenges Unix for network clout. (operating systems from Microsoft Corp. and Unix Corp.) (Product Announcement)
EDN, August, 1993 by Small, Charles H.
With Windows NT, Microsoft has finally developed an operating system that exploits the power of the current crop of Intel [mu]Ps. But Microsoft is casting a wider net, aiming at nothing less than displacing Unix and making Windows NT the standard operating system for all networked servers and desktop computers.
Of course, Microsoft should have had a protected-mode, multitasking operating system ready to go when Intel introduced the hardware that such an operating system could run on: the 80286. The 80286 came and went, the 80386 and the 80486 appeared, and now, finally, concurrent with Pentium ("80586"), comes Windows NT.
Windows NT's requirements will not faze someone used to Unix but might stun a PC user. The operating system requires a...
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