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IDK, from what I've just read NT looks like someone took Minix (released in 1992) and worked on it to make it useful. Plus adding a subsystem layer.

Frankly, I'm still more impressed by a monolithic kernel that did it better, before: Plan 9 (released in 1991). What use is for NT to be object-oriented, if it can't share its objects through a network like Plan?

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> IDK, from what I've just read NT looks like someone took Minix (released in 1992) and worked on it to make it useful. Plus adding a subsystem layer.

VMS.

> Frankly, I'm still more impressed by a monolithic kernel that did it better, before: Plan 9 (released in 1991). What use is for NT to be object-oriented, if it can't share its objects through a network like Plan?

Sadly the UNIX crowd decided it was not worth it adopting it.

Minix wasn't released in 1992, the first version was from 1987.

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