Microsoft's Pivotal Windows Nt 3.5 Release Made It a Serious Contender
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1992 was flood of cheap clones with Am386DX, 486SX / 4 MB ram / VGA / Sound Blaster. Then in 1993 standard became 486 DX2-66 / 8 MB RAM / VLB VGA.
Not purportedly, absolutely was. It's in the design docs.
> many people have mistakenly thought "NT" stood for "Network Technology."
Never heard that one. It's always been "New Technology" (which is what it does stand for) or "NTen" after the Intel N10 it was going to ship on.
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