Blake Patterson<p>Did you know that the 'NT' in Windows NT stood for "Nine Ten"? </p><p>The intended core platform for the OS was the then-expected Intel i910 RISC processor, which was to be the rebranded moniker for the i860 that can be found in the wild. *</p><p>It never came to be due to the i860s terrible handling of context switching -- a capability that a CPU for a multitasking, multiuser workstation OS must be able to do _very_efficiently_. The i860 wasn't. </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTkFGZqVCM8&t=459s" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=WTkFGZqVCM</span><span class="invisible">8&t=459s</span></a></p><p>*** EDIT: Several have pointed to sources indicating differently that NT stood for N10, which was the codename for the i860, so -- N10, N-Ten > NT. </p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsNT</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Intel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intel</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/i860" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>i860</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/i910" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>i910</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/techhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techhistory</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RISC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISC</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/x86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>x86</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/processors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>processors</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computers</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/computinghistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computinghistory</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a></p>