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Article: Windows NT challenges Unix for network clout. (operating systems from Microsoft Corp. and Unix Corp.) (Product Announcement)
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- August 5, 1993
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With Windows NT, Microsoft has finally developed an operating system that exploits the power of the current crop of Intel [mu]Ps. But Microsoft is casting a wider net, aiming at nothing less than displacing Unix and making Windows NT the standard operating system for all networked servers and desktop computers.
Of course, Microsoft should have had a protected-mode, multitasking operating system ready to go when Intel introduced the hardware that such an operating system could run on: the 80286. The 80286 came and went, the 80386 and the 80486 appeared, and now, finally, concurrent with Pentium ("80586"), comes Windows NT.
Windows NT's requirements will ...