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		gok on Feb 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The SDK “Power Mac G5” for the Xbox 360 Eh so I'm not a Windows expert but wasn't W2K in turn NT-derived?

yjftsjthsd-h on Feb 24, 2019 [–]

Windows 2000 is literally NT 5.0 (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_ve... for a mapping of the widely used names to internal NT versions).

Edit to clarify: all versions of Windows, server and consumer, are NT, they just stopped using that branding.

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