This fairly short item <
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTkFGZqVCM8>
on the RetroBytes channel gives some background on Intel?s first
failed attempt at a homegrown RISC CPU -- the i860, or 80860.
What is not so well-known is that this is the chip that gave the name
to the Windows NT project at Microsoft. Everybody believes that the
?NT? stands for ?New Technology?, and that was the official story
later. But during the initial development, which started on the i860,
it was taken from the code name for that chip. The narrator says that
code name was ?Nine-Ten?, but elsewhere I have looked online says it
was more like ?N-Ten?.
Rather amusing, in a depressing sort of way, to see the number of
commenters insisting he was wrong, and that it really was ?New
Technology?. As if the sources he was citing -- actual Microsoft
people who worked on NT, including Dave ?Mr Windows NT? Cutler himself
-- couldn?t possibly be credible ...
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