Comment on How did internet viruses spread before the internet was invented!
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 day agoIndeed. The home/consumer line of Windows (9x) hadn’t that requirement or even the capability of joining domains (thus only local accounts if at any). Windows NT started branching off 3.0 though, so quite early on with NT 3.1 which coincided with Windows 3.11 for workgroups.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
NT was developed separately, it was just given the 3 version number to be sorta in sync with the workstation line (which sentiment went outta the window with 95, until NT became the main line).