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“It indexed the web before Google told it to; rest easy, FAST friend.”
“First of the 32-bit line, it left the DOS crutch behind and never looked back.”
Windows NT 3.1 arrived on July 27, 1993, as Microsoft's first major release of the Windows NT operating system and its entry into corporate computing. It was the company's first 32-bit operating system, free of the constrictive 16-bit DOS-dependent architecture of earlier Windows versions, while keeping a desktop familiar to Windows 3.1 users. Built to support large networks and compiled for Intel x86, DEC Alpha and
NT began as a rewrite of OS/2, the operating system Microsoft co-developed with IBM that struggled against Unix and Sun's dominant workstations. With Windows 3.0 booming in 1990, Microsoft chose to advance Windows instead, handed back its OS/2 duties, and numbered NT 3.1 to signal a familiar experience. It retired around 2000, having quietly laid the foundation for everything Microsoft's enterprise line would become.
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“It indexed the web before Google told it to; rest easy, FAST friend.”
“Daisy-chained with dignity, no hub required, still plugged in somewhere inside.”
“It booted through MS-DOS and into our hearts, one startup sound at a time.”