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"New Technology", if you want to search the transcript. Per Dave, marketing did not want to use "NT" for "New Technology" because they thought no one would buy new technology.

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Actually it was not only x86 hardware that was not really planned for the NT kernel, also Windows user space was not the first candidate. Posix and maybe even OS/2 were earlier goals.

So the current x86 Windows monoculture came up as an accident because strategically planned new options did not materialize. The user space change should finally debunk the theory that VMS andvances into WNT was a secret plot by the engineers involved. It was probably a coincidence discovered after the fact.

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