> Linux wasn't a thing by the time NT was in development
So your statement provided here is wrong and misleading then?
According to this book NT development took five years to complete and reached stable 1.0 version by 1993 [1].
When Linux was in version 0.99 it has had a working implementation of TCP/IP by 1992 then in the very same year Linus relicensed Linux to GPL, and all these happened during NT development, wasn't it?
[1] Showstopper: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and Next Generation at Microsoft:
So your statement provided here is wrong and misleading then?
According to this book NT development took five years to complete and reached stable 1.0 version by 1993 [1].
When Linux was in version 0.99 it has had a working implementation of TCP/IP by 1992 then in the very same year Linus relicensed Linux to GPL, and all these happened during NT development, wasn't it?
[1] Showstopper: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and Next Generation at Microsoft:
https://archive.org/details/showstopperbreak00zach