Working With Windows NT

There are two versions of Windows NT (the NT stands for “new technology”): Windows NT Workstation. Windows NT Workstation can be used on a standalone PC or can be used as the operating system on a workstation connected to a network.

Windows NT Server. Windows NT Server, can do the same, as well as provide a domain environment on a network. (A domain is a group of computers joined together over a network that share a common database controlling security to each PC on the network.)

Windows NT Workstation, as well as Windows NT Server, is architecturally built more like the UNIX operating system than like other Windows operating systems, such as DOS with Windows 3.x and Windows 9x.

Windows NT is designed with a strong emphasis on room for expandability, primarily accomplished by its modular approach to dealing with applications and hardware.

Windows NT is also intended to port to several non-Intel-based platforms, provide a high level of security, performance, and reliability, and offer strong networking features.

Using A Modular Model

The three main reasons to use the highly modular model rather than the non modular model are as follows:

To make upgrades of equipment easier. (Some employees and all customers are unaffected.)

To increase the overall efficiency of the operation. (Each part of the process involves fewer people than in the other models.)

To better ensure the integrity of processes. (Standards are more easily enforced.)

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