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I was reading an article which said that a term sometimes used for
Windows XP was NT Server (or was it NT Workstation - I forget now).

Can someone explain this and if so then are there particular versions
of Windows which the writer probably had in mind?

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A history of Microsoft Windows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo [...] ft_Windows

A quote from those pages:

The merging of the Windows NT/2000 and Windows 3.1/95/98/ME lines was
achieved with Windows XP (codenamed "Whistler"; "Odyssey" was the codename
for NT's Successor, which was cancelled, and merged with the Windows 9x
successor at the time, "Neptune", and they became "Whistler" ). Windows XP
uses the Windows NT kernel; however, it finally marks the entrance of the
Windows NT core to the consumer market, to replace the aging 16-bit branch.

"Zak" wrote:

> I was reading an article which said that a term sometimes used for
> Windows XP was NT Server (or was it NT Workstation - I forget now).
>
> Can someone explain this and if so then are there particular versions
> of Windows which the writer probably had in mind?
>

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In news:96C3AB15555A764A18E@66.250.146.159,
Zak <zak@nomail.invalid> typed:

> I was reading an article which said that a term sometimes used
> for
> Windows XP was NT Server (or was it NT Workstation - I forget
> now).


No, it's neither. First of all, although under the hood WIndows
XP is actually Windows NT 5.1, the name "Windows NT" isn't
usually used for it. That term is normally reserved for Windows
NT 4 and earlier.

Secondly the name NT server refers to a particular version of
Windows NT, the server version. If someone says "NT Server," he's
probably referring to Windows NT Server 4.0.

Similarly if someone refers to "NT Workstation," he's probably
referring to the Workstation version of NT 4.0.

Third, Windows XP is a Workstation version, not a Server version.
The current Server version in the XP line is called Windows
Server 2003.

So XP is never called "NT Server." It's also never called "NT
Workstation," even though it is a workstation version of an
operating system in the NT line.


> Can someone explain this and if so then are there particular
> versions
> of Windows which the writer probably had in mind?


I don't know what the writer had in mind, but he's either very
much misinformed or, more likely, you just misunderstood what he
wrote.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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XP is the equivelant of NT Workstation, with the exception
that XP Home cannot log onto a domain.

"Zak" <zak@nomail.invalid> wrote in message
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:I was reading an article which said that a term sometimes
used for
: Windows XP was NT Server (or was it NT Workstation - I
forget now).
:
: Can someone explain this and if so then are there
particular versions
: of Windows which the writer probably had in mind?

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Zak <zak@nomail.invalid> wrote:

>I was reading an article which said that a term sometimes used for
>Windows XP was NT Server (or was it NT Workstation - I forget now).
>
>Can someone explain this and if so then are there particular versions
>of Windows which the writer probably had in mind?

The internal version number for Windows XP is Windows NT (workstation)
5.1

Windows 2000 was Windows NT (workstation) 5.0


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
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http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

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Zak wrote:
> I was reading an article which said that a term sometimes used for
> Windows XP was NT Server (or was it NT Workstation - I forget now).
>
> Can someone explain this and if so then are there particular versions
> of Windows which the writer probably had in mind?


It has never been so, at least amongst people that know anything about
computers in general and Microsoft operating systems in particular.


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Bruce Chambers

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