How Windows NT go it's Name !

[thinktank]

Dave Cutler headed the Windows NT development team, after he had headed the VMS dev team at DEC.

About a year and a half after the beginning of the developing process of NT, someone discovered that WNT is VMS++.

      V     M    S
      W    N    T

so he asked Dave about that, and his answer was: "wow, It took you too long to find that".

[nabeels786]

what?

doesnt NT stand for "Network Terminal"

i was gonna post a post cuz i was wondering what NT meant..

[CiberTHuG]

Officially I think it is Next Technology, or New Technology.

If WNT is really VMS++, then I think I will start calling it WNT instead of WinNT. VMS may have been a beast, but it was a nice beast.

[spetnik]

Actually, according to Microsoft Documentation, NT stands for New Technology

This is kinda ammusing, cuz when booting Win 2k, it says, "Based on NT technology"

[CiberTHuG]

Well, internally W2K IDs itself as NT 5.0. Also, Win95 IDs itself as DOS 7, because it isn't an OS, just a GUI running on one, like Win 3.1 on DOS 6 or X on Unix.

[thinktank]

NT is New Technology,

But Dave Cutler Chose this name because..

Each letter is the next to each corresponfing letter of VMS..


ie V - > W
M -> N
S -> T

[spetnik]

Originally posted by CiberTHuG
Well, internally W2K IDs itself as NT 5.0. Also, Win95 IDs itself as DOS 7, because it isn't an OS, just a GUI running on one, like Win 3.1 on DOS 6 or X on Unix.

Right, but "NT Technology" is like saying "New Technology Technology". It's the same as when ppl say "ASP Pages"

[filburt1]

Originally posted by spetnik


Right, but "NT Technology" is like saying "New Technology Technology". It's the same as when ppl say "ASP Pages"

Yup. I love the Windows 2000 splash screen that says:

Microsoft
Windows 2000
<ugly-ass logo>
Based on NT Technology

Yes, I believe the correct term is ASPs. I call JavaServer Pages JSPs, although some people think it sounds freaky.

[CiberTHuG]

Originally posted by spetnik


Right, but "NT Technology" is like saying "New Technology Technology". It's the same as when ppl say "ASP Pages"

D'oh! I didn't think about that. Its like "PIN Number". And I am such a stickler about "ASP Pages".

On a close tangent, I don't like "ASP Web Page". Not only is it redundant with "page" twice, but what other kind of ASPs can you have? Oh, I'm just being picky.

'Course, I don't like people saying "let me xerox this". But anyway.

[filburt1]

Just ASPs. No ASP web pages, no ASP pages, just ASPs.

[CiberTHuG]

So why did MS go with the name C#?

With e everything (eMail, eBusiness, et al), I'm surprised they didn't call it E.

[filburt1]

Nobody uses C# anyway. It's just a cheap*** version of Java.

[chrisjk]

Win Not to be Trusted

[barrk]

Because E is for elephant.......duh!

[filburt1]

Originally posted by barrk
Because E is for elephant.......duh!

You okay katie? *backs away slowly*

[CiberTHuG]

Originally posted by barrk
Because E is for elephant.......duh!

Okay, I understand that you are a mother, but I didn't realize you had a toddler? You sound like a Speak-n-Say, or whatever that toy is.

"The Cow says... Moooooo"

[barrk]

My apologies. It's already been a very long day!

[filburt1]

Obviously.

[CiberTHuG]

Sorry its been a long day.

[aknisely]

I always thought it was Network Trash, but whatever.