#@operating system@# (Windows New Technology, NT) Microsoft's joint development of OS/2. NT was designed for high end Advanced Server), and corporate networks (NT 4.0 Enterprise Unlike Windows 3.1, which was a graphical environment that ran on top of MS-DOS, Windows NT is a complete operating system. To the user it looks like Windows 3.1, but it has It is based on a microkernel, with 32-bit addressing for up to 4Gb of RAM, virtualised hardware access to fully protect applications, installable file systems, such as FAT, HPFSNT is also designed to be hardware independent. Once the - has been ported to a particular machine, the rest of the operating system should theorertically compile without alteration. A version of NT for DEC's Alpha machines was planned (September 1993). NT needs a fast 386 or equivalent, at least 12MB of RAM(preferably 16MB) and at least 75MB of free disk space. (2002-06-10)
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