By orionblastar
Windows NT 3.1 was based on Microsoft OS/2 NT 3.0, it was originally Microsoft’s version of OS/2 with the Windows 3>X GUI added to it instead of IBM’s Presentation Manager.
The NT Kernel and OS was designed to run DOS, POSIX, OS/2 1.X CLI apps (But not GUI) and 16 bit Windows and 32 bit Windows apps. Later on OS/2 and POSIX support got dropped.
Microsoft OS/2 NT 3.0 was a rewrite of OS/2 for 32 bit systems, before that OS/2 was on 16 bit systems with 1.X and IBM and Microsoft fought over 2.0 standards, and Microsoft stopped support for OS/2 and focused on Windows instead. Then renamed their OS/2 to NT for New Technologies.
The Interesting thing about Windows NT was that Microsoft had plans to port it to different processors and eventually dropped those plans and stuck with X86 processors instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
It was designed as a modified microkernel.
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10485287
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