On December 31, 2001, Microsoft declared Windows NT 3.5 obsolete and stopped providing support and updates for the system.
Features
Windows NT 3.5 comes in two editions: NT Workstation and NT Server. They respectively replace the NT and NT Advanced Server editions of Windows NT 3.1.[5] The Workstation edition allows only 10 concurrent clients to access the file server and does not support Mac clients.[6]
Windows NT 3.5 includes integrated Winsock and TCP/IP support.[7] (Its predecessor, Windows NT 3.1, only includes an incomplete implementation of TCP/IP based on the AT&TUNIX System V "STREAMS" API.) TCP/IP and IPX/SPX stacks in Windows NT 3.5 are rewritten.[8]NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) support as a compatibility layer for TCP/IP was introduced as also the Microsoft DHCP and WINS clients and DHCP and WINS servers.[9][10]
In May 2020, the full source code for the second release candidate build (build 782.1) of Windows NT 3.5, along with source code for the original Xbox, leaked onto the Internet.[17]
References
^ abAdams, Paul (August 4, 2009). "Windows NT History". if (ms) blog++;. Microsoft. Archived from the original on April 23, 2019. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
^Russinovich, Mark; Solomon, David A. (December 8, 2004). Microsoft Windows Internals (4 ed.). Microsoft. ISBN978-0-7356-1917-3. The first release of Windows NT was larger and slower than expected, so the next major push was a project called "Daytona", named after the speedway in Florida. The main goals for this release were to reduce the size of the system, increase the speed of the system, and, of course, to make it more reliable.
^ ab"TCP/IP in Windows NT 3.5". Yale.edu. Yale University. April 9, 1995. Archived from the original on February 29, 2000. Retrieved September 22, 2013.