> It has been suggested that Dave Cutler intended the initialism "WNT" as a play on VMS, incrementing each letter by one. However, the project was originally intended as a follow-on to OS/2 and was referred to as "NT OS/2" before receiving the Windows brand. One of the original NT developers, Mark Lucovsky, states that the name was taken from the original target processor—the Intel i860, code-named N10 ("N-Ten").
I can't figure out what this is referring to, though. Maybe you can do better.
- VMS developer develops WNT, playfully incrementing each letter of his prior OS from former employer, based on similar concepts.
- Corporate lawyers.
- Obvious explanation vehemently denied.
- Alternative explanations abound.
You can believe what you want. I chose Occam's Razor.