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2 unusual facts about Windows NT


Condusiv Technologies

In 1995 the company was asked by Microsoft to develop products for its Windows NT system before it was released.

Data Access Language

However, like any server software on the "classic" Mac OS, Butler was seriously hampered by the Mac's single-user file system and limited multitasking and could never really deliver the sort of performance the same server would have on Windows NT or Unix.


AppleShare

Equivalent third party server products include the open-source Netatalk suite on Unix-like systems, and Services for Macintosh on Microsoft Windows NT and 2000.

Ease of Access

Ease of Access, formerly Utility Manager, is a component of Windows NT family of operating systems that enables use of assistive technologies.

Lucida Sans Unicode

It was developed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes in 1993, and was first shipped with the Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 operating system.

Mark Malamud

In addition to designing the fundamental conceptual, user, and interaction models for Windows 95 and future versions of Windows NT, Mr. Malamud also pursued future user interface abstractions.

OpenVMS

Roger Gourd was the project lead for the Starlet program, with software engineers Dave Cutler (who would later lead development of Microsoft's Windows NT), Dick Hustvedt, and Peter Lippman acting as the technical project leaders, each having responsibility for a different area of the operating system.

Passphrase

If backward compatibility with Microsoft LAN Manager is not needed, in versions of Windows NT (including Windows 2000, Windows XP and later), a passphrase can be used as a substitute for a Windows password.

Power user

In Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Server 2003, there is a "Power Users" group on the system that gives more permissions than a normal restricted user, but stops short of Administrator permissions.

Print Services for UNIX

Print Services for UNIX is the name currently given by Microsoft to its support of the Line Printer Daemon protocol (also called LPR, LPD) on Windows NT-based systems.

Richard Belluzzo

He was a strong advocate at HP to reduce their investments in HP-UX and PA-RISC in favor of Windows NT and Itanium, as well as getting SGI to cut their investments in IRIX and MIPS.


see also

Bootcfg

Though NTLDR and boot.ini are no longer used to boot Windows Vista and later versions of Windows NT, they ship with the bootcfg utility regardless.

Microsoft COM+ IMDB

However, soon after the rollout of Windows 2000, several already delivering IMDB vendors had come forward with main-memory database systems that run on 32-bit Windows NT systems.

Windows kernel

Windows NT kernel, used in all Windows NT systems (including Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8)