Issue 1. [Re: [ros-general] ROS-User-Issues]

[Filip Navara]

You're right that "N-Ten" was originally the name of the simulator, but 
it was based on the code name of the processor which is "N10". It was 
later (incorrectly) adapted by the "community" as a name for the 
processor itself...

- Filip

"Originally, we were targeting NT to the Intel i860 (code-named 
'N-Ten'), a RISC processor 
<http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winserver2k3_gold1.asp#> that was 
horribly behind schedule. Because we didn't have any i860 machines 
in-house to test on, we used an i860 simulator. That's why we called it 
NT, because it worked on the 'N-Ten.'"
~ Mark Lucovsky

Alex Ionescu wrote:

> It's not New Technology, nor Nothern Telecom, not Needs Terabytes 
> neither Not There.
>
> It does stand for N-Ten, but that's not the codename for the i860. 
> It's the name of the simulator that was used since
> i860 didn't really exist while MS was working on the OS.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu
>
>> That's just MS marketing propaganda. It was originally sorthand for 
>> N-Ten, which is code name for Intel i860 processor the first NT 
>> version was targeted at.
>
>
>> - Filip
>
>
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