Informatique / Logiciels / Systèmes d'exploitation
see also : Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT...
Système
d'exploitation à part entière, fortement
axée (NDM : axé?)
multimédia
et destinée à concurrencer
OS/2.
Windows NT établit le lien avec le monde
Unix. - Micro Application, 1994
Windows NT
système d'exploitation pour
serveurs ou
stations de
travail.
Multitâche, 32 bits... Plus
robuste que Windows 95 et
déjà bien rôdé. Parfois surnommé
« Windows No Thanks »...
Windows NT - np. m.
[SYSEX]
Système d'exploitation de chez Microsoft, qui aurait tendance à être relativement sérieux. J'insiste sur le « relativement ». Voir NT. Chose amusante : WNT sont les lettres suivantes dans l'ordre alphabétique de VMS. - LJF, 1997
Windows NT
<operating system> (Windows New Technology, NT).
{Microsoft}'s 32 bit {operating system} developed from what was originally intended to be {OS/2} 3.0 before {Microsoft} and {IBM} ceased joint development of OS/2. NT was designed for high end {workstations} (Windows NT 3.1), servers (Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server) and corporate networks.The first release, {Windows NT 3.1}, price UKP 395, was in September 1993, after having been in {beta-test} for as long as anyone could remember.
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 true {multi-threading}, built in networking, security, and {memory protection}.
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}, {HPFS} and {NTFS}, built-in networking, {multi-processor} support, and {C2 security}.
NT is also designed to be hardware independent. Once the machine specific part - the {Hardware Abstraction Layer} (HAL) - 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.
{Usenet} newsgroups: {news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup}, {news:comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc}.
(20 Oct 1994)
<operating system> {Microsoft}'s first version of "Windows New Technology" (WNT), although there is an {urban legend} that says the person responsible for {VMS} on the {DEC VAX} was also responsible for Windows NT, and if you move one letter on alphabetically from VMS, you get WNT.
(08 Jul 1996)
<operating system> A much improved version of {Microsoft}'s {Windows NT 3.1}. NT is now (July 1996) supplied as "Windows NT 3.5 Workstation" and "Windows NT 3.5 Server". It has better {OLE} support, higher performance and requires less memory.
(08 Jul 1996)
Voir : Windows plus N°9 (06/1994), p.39...
<operating system> A version of {Microsoft}'s {Windows NT} {operating system}, originally code named "Cairo". It was supposed to ship in the first half of 1995. Details are scarce, but it is intended to provide an {object-oriented} version of Windows.
(09 Jul 1996)
Windows NT 4.0 nécessite au
minimum 12 Mo de RAM (théoriquement) mais ramerait avec 64 Mo
de RAM... peut être avec 128 ???
08/1996 : Windows NT 4.0
La nouvelle version du vrai système d'exploitation de
Microsoft va sortir dans un mois ou deux, elle fera plein de choses
avec en plus l'interface très carrée et très
chaleureuse de Windows 95.
Cet OS étant plutôt destiné aux
grands utilisateurs du monde obscur, on peut imaginer que cette
année on entendra un peu moins brailler les Rolling
Stones à chaque pause publicitaire.
- 1er août 96
"Windows NT multiposte pousse les
NC" : 01 RESEAUX
N°31 (10/1996), p.11
05/1997 :
"Hewlett-Packard veut
participer à la grande migration vers Windows NT" [...]
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Sources : dictionnaire de la MICRO 94 (Ma), FOLDOC (1997), informatique magazine (1997) Bad sources : | |