Microsoft Windows NT OS/2 Design Workbook
date: label: Date made
content: 1989
name: label: creator
content: Microsoft Corporation
label: team leader
content: Cutler, David N.
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content: Microsoft Corporation
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content: This binder contains the original design specifications for “NT OS/2,” an operating system designed by Microsoft that developed into Windows NT. In the late 1980s, Microsoft's 16-bit operating system, Windows, gained popularity, prompting IBM and Microsoft to end their OS/2 development partnership. Although Windows 3.0 proved to be successful, Microsoft wished to continue developing a 32-bit operating system completely unrelated to IBM's OS/2 architecture. To head the redesign project, Microsoft hired David Cutler and others away from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Unlike Windows 3.x and its successor, Windows 95, NT's technology provided better network support, making it the preferred Windows environment for businesses. These two product lines continued development as separate entities until they were merged with the release of Windows XP in 2001.
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content: Authors of sections of the design workbook include David N. Cutler, Helen Custer, Daryl E. Havens, Jim Kelly, Edwin Hoogerbeets, Gary D. Kimura, Chuck Lenzmeier, Mark Lucovsky, Tom Miller, Michael J. O'Leary, Lou Perazzoli, Steven D. Rowe, David Treadwell, and Steven R. Wood.
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Washington
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Microsoft Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.3014.01
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content: 2001.3014
label: catalog number
content: 2001.3014.01
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content: design specification workbook
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29.4 cm x 24.5 cm x 12.4 cm; 11 9/16 in x 9 5/8 in x 4 7/8 in