Windows NT, Windows NT Server, e Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition são sistemas operativos de servidores e workstations feitos pela Microsoft que correm em Intel Pentium, Intel 80x86, e DEC Alpha.
Tipo de SO: proprietary
Versão corrente: 4.0
Intel Pentium(note: Windows NT 3.51 was ported to DEC Alpha, SGI MIPS, and IBM/Motorola PowerPC, but is no longer supported; Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition was ported to DEC Alpha, but is no longer supported)
Número máximo de processadores: 4 —Jim Carr, MicroTimes; Oct 30, 1998
“Digital UNIX continues to dominate the 64-bit arena, leaving HP-UX and IRIX to contest the second position, followed closely by AIX. Solaris and NT trail significantly behind. Support for 64-bit processes [and] for large amounts of physical memory are still missing from NT. NT runs on 64-bit Alpha hardware and offers 64-bit files and file systems but has yet to address the key 64-bit requirement to support large amounts of physical memory for enhancing database performance.” —D.H. Brown Associates
Kernel: proprietary
POSIX: suportado parcialmente
Periféricos: “Many PC peripherals work with NT, many don’t. See the HCL for a list of devices that are certified to work.” —Kristian Elof Sørensen
Ficheiros de sistema suportáveis:
- preferred file system: NTFS (NRWF)
- file systems read only and can write through optional software: ISO 9660 (joliet)
Operador de interface(texto): Linha de comandos do DOS
Operador de interface(gráfico):
Opiniões
“Microsoft enjoyed its great success not because it had great software but because people were stuck with it. Market domination, not innovation, drove the company’s success,” wrote James Wallace in the book “Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace”, John Wiley & Sons, September 1997.
Quite simply, Windows guarantees more work for the M.I.S. departments — because it computers require far more technical support to do the same work. And when the M.I.S. departments make computer recommendations to management, they tend to look out for their own job security over the best interests of the business. The same reason that many retail stores also push Wintel machines — it guarantees more work for their highly profitable service departments.
In addition to 
Rhapsody (which combines the ease of use and
professional content creation capabilities of the 
Macintosh with the power,
reliability, and speed of 
NeXT version of UNIX), 
BeOS, NetWare, and 
OS/2 Warp Server, any of the many free and
commercial versions of UNIX offer a better high end operating
system than Windows NT.
