re win nt what is it rmohns vax clarku edu writes windows nt is a giant windows operating system unline win it does not run on top of dos it is its own os with billy gates assures us true multi tasking multithreading meets dod security specs will run win programs as well as dos programs has multi processor support and is primarily a server program it s overhead is too high for it to be economical for most users correction all billy is promising is that it will run most windows programs and the major dos programs do not expect everything you have to run under nt unless all you have are current ms apps
