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Encyclopedia: Windows NT

A main design goal of NT was hardware and software portability. Versions of NT were available for a variety of processor architectures, namely Intel IA-32, MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC SPARC, Intel i860, and Intel i960. Broad software compatibility was achieved with support for several API "personalities", including the primary Win32 API and limited support for POSIX and OS/2 APIs. For secure multiuser server solutions, NT supported per-object (file, function, role) access control lists allowing a rich set of security permissions to be applied to systems and services. NT supported Windows network protocols, inheriting the previous OS/2 LAN Manager networking, as well as Unix's TCP/IP networking (for which Microsoft would implement a TCP/IP stack derived from the BSD Unix stack).

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Microsoft Windows NT

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Program Manager

Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows NT, the Program Manager was replaced by Windows Explorer. The Program... Windows NT or 2000... The Program Manager in the Microsoft Windows 3.x series operating systems gave users a way to...

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Service pack

adds new features within one of the Microsoft Windows NT-based operating systems. A Service Pack is... installation and version tracking more convenient. Windows NT 4 currently has 6 Service Packs. Windows 2000 currently has 4 Service Packs. Windows XP currently has 2 Service Packs. They are available...

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System Account Manager

introduced the SYSKEY utility in Windows NT 4.0. The SAM database is stored as a registry file in Windows NT and Windows 2000. This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line...

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4DOS

4DOS is a command line interpreter by JP Software designed to replace the DOS default command.com. A substitute for Windows NT's command prompt, 4NT, was also released. It also includes enhanced batch file processing, including 4DOS-specific extensions, and is capable of running batch files much...

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Back Orifice 2000

original Back Orifice was limited to the Windows 95 and Windows 98 operating systems, BO2K also supported Windows NT. In addition, BO2K was released open source...

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LPC

LPC is a programming language. LPC is also an abbreviation for linear predictive coding. LPC is also an abbreviation for Local Procedure Call, a cross-address space communication mechanism used by Microsoft's Windows NT. LPC is also an abbreviation for Low Pin Count...

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PDC

PDC may stand for: Political parties: Parti Démocrate-Chrétien Suisse (Switzerland) Partido Demócrata Cristiano (Chile) Personal Digital Cellular, a Japanese mobile phone standard Programme Delivery Control Primary Domain Controller, a Windows NT networking technology The...

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Showstopper

about the development of the Microsoft Windows NT operating system...

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Primary Domain Controller

A Primary Domain Controller (PDC) is a concept used in Microsoft Windows NT server operating... username and password combination. In later releases of Windows, such as Windows 2000, it has been superceded by Active Directory. Every Windows NT server needs to be connected to a PDC of some...

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