tor 2016-01-28 klockan 14:01 +0100 skrev Liam Proven: > The result was named "Windows NT". > > Entertainingly, WNT is what you get if you shift the letters of 'VMS" > 1 position forward in the alphabet. > > Actually, though, it was developed on multiple CPU platforms, and one > was an in-house board design based around Intel's RISC chip, the i860 > -- codenamed the N10. NT allegedly stood for "N Ten" before MS > marketing retconned it to "New Technology". >
IS the multiplatform aspect one of the reason why the kernel as such worked so well ? 12 years ago the Gtk/GNOME hackers had a heated discussion about portability to SPARC64. I can't help thinking that if they had done the work at that time with regards to 64bitness and threading the stack today would work much better in current multicore amd64 cpus.
