Windows nt 3.5
operating system
A much improved version of Microsoft’s Windows NT 3.1. NT is now (July 1996) supplied as “Windows NT 3.5 Workstation” and “Windows NT 3.5 Server”. It has better OLE support, higher performance and requires less memory.
(1996-07-08)
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