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		yuhong on Jan 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why wasn't the Windows 95 shell prototyped on Wind... Note that Raymond was talking about NT 3.1, and one of the goals of 3.5 was to make it smaller and faster.

meanguy on Jan 4, 2012 [–]

Yeah, I file that under "Raymond glossing things over." NT 3.5 shipped 11 months before Windows 95 did!

People forget that Microsoft wasn't always a lumbering giant. Ship dates:

NT 3.1 - July 93 NT 3.5 - September 94 NT 3.51 - May 95 NT 4.0 - July 96

Platform support: Intel, MIPS, Alpha, plus PowerPC on 3.51 and 4.0.

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