A version of the Windows operating system. Windows NT (New Technology) is a 32-bit operating system that supports preemptive multitasking. There are actually two versions of Windows NT: Windows NT Server, designed to act as a server in networks, and Windows NT Workstation for stand-alone or client workstations.
This Day In Tech History
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
-Popular Mechanics, March 1949More Tech History
The AUTODIN System is online.
Virtual memory arrives.
LINC [ Laboratory Instrumentation Computer] offers the first real time lab data processing.
Paul Baran publishes paper outlining packet switching, On Distributed Communication Networks.
The Atlas Computer is completed. It is one of the world's first supercomputers.
The BRLESC computer is brought online.