Windows NT Turns 20 · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Friday July 26, 2013 @11:30AM from the in-many-ways-it-never-really-went-away dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a link to the observation from ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley of Windows NT's 20th birthday (it came out on July 27th, 1993): ""In 1993, Microsoft launched Windows NT 3.1. It was followed up by NT 3.5, 3.51 and 4.0. Microsoft's Windows releases still rely on NT-inspired numbering conventions. Windows 7's build numbers commenced with 6.1; Windows 8's with 6.2; and Windows 8.1 with 6.3." The article also reminds us that "NT's not ancient history, in spite of its age. The NT 'core' is what's inside Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows Phone 8, Windows Azure and the Xbox One.""

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Re:Lesson One by stox · 2013-07-26 12:32 · Score: 1, Troll

If you call 6 months substantially:
October 25, 1977 - V1.0 VAX-11/780, Initial commercial release
March 9, 1978 - 1BSD
May 1979 - 2BSD
December 1979 - 3BSD with VAX support. ie. Virtual memory, etc.
November 1980 - 4BSD

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