What "NT" Really Stands ForMark Lucovsky, a former Distinguished Engineer (the most prestigious title for an engineer at Microsoft) in the Windows NT group, explains the term NT:
N10 was the code name for the Intel chipset (i860) that NT was originally targeted for. Thus, NT was a code name titled after another code name. I am not sure if the Windows marketing folks really planned on using NT for the product name. It is pretty rare that a code name at Microsoft is used for a product's final released name. Maybe because they tacked on Windows to NT and at the time of the first release, both terms were pretty popular in the computer world, they decided to keep the NT moniker, too. |