Comment by acdha
7 years ago
My point was that it is misleading to say it was billed as a server OS when all of their messaging was that it was both — maybe not as far down as low-end desktops but they were very clear that any serious work could be done on NT, going after the higher end PC and lower end workstation business.
In that era workstations weren’t the same things as desktops. They were an entirely different class of computers and often workstations just ran server OSs with a nicer UI (Next, SGI, etc). So you’re point about workstations doesn’t invalidate what I was saying about NT not originally targeting desktops.