[Gllug] MS grumbles

[Avi Greenbury]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:57:21 +0000
John G Walker <johngeoffreywalker at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:32:52 +0000 Peter Childs
> <peterachilds at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Under Windows NT certainly 4 and 3.51 as well if I remember
> > correctly, you had to press Ctrl-Alt-Del before you got a login
> > prompt
> 
> I don't know what Windows 4 is, but there was no login to Windows 3.1.
> This was a presentation manager that run under DOS, somewhat like KDE
> or Gnome under Linux,
> 

Windows NT was not of the same lineage as 'normal' Windows. Windows NT
3.51 is an iteration of Windows NT 3.x, not of Windows 3.x.

I think all iterations of Windows NT were/are free of DOS proper,
instead providing an emulator, though I'm not sure.

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