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Windows NT 4.0 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It is the direct successor to Windows NT 3.51, and was released to manufacturing on July 31, 1996, [1] and then to retail in August 24, 1996, with the Server versions released to retail in September 1996.
Windows NT 4.0 was the last major release to support Alpha, MIPS, or PowerPC, though development of Windows 2000 for Alpha continued until August 1999, when Compaq stopped support for Windows NT on that architecture; and then three days later Microsoft also canceled their AlphaNT program, [59] even though the Alpha NT 5 (Windows 2000) release ...
ReactOS–project to develop an operating system that is binary compatible with application software and device drivers for Microsoft Windows NT version 5.x Wine (software) –compatibility layer which allows to execute programs that were originally written for Microsoft Windows
NT 3.1 Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server; 528 IA-32, Alpha, MIPS: December 31, 2000 Windows NT 3.5: Daytona September 21, 1994 NT 3.5 Windows NT 3.5 Server; 807 IA-32, Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC: December 31, 2001 Windows NT 3.51: May 29, 1995 NT 3.51 Windows NT 3.51 Server; 1057 December 31, 2001 Windows NT 4.0: Shell Update Release July 29, 1996 NT 4.0
Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It is the direct successor to Windows NT 4.0, and was released to manufacturing on December 15, 1999, [2] officially released to retail on February 17, 2000 for all versions, and on September 26, 2000 for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.
Windows NT 3.51 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It is the third version of Windows NT and was released on May 30, 1995, eight months following the release of Windows NT 3.5 .
For NT and NT-based operating systems, it also allows the user to pass preconfigured options to the kernel. The menu options are stored in boot.ini, which itself is located in the root of the same disk as NTLDR. Though NTLDR can boot DOS and non-NT versions of Windows, boot.ini cannot configure their boot options.
The first, Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, was intended for IA-64 systems; as IA-64 usage declined on workstations in favor of AMD's x86-64 architecture, the Itanium edition was discontinued in January 2005. [57] A new 64-bit edition supporting the x86-64 architecture, called Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, was released in April 2005. [58]