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Windows operating system
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Microsoft Windows.
Early versions (Windows NT 3.1/3.5/3.51/4.0/2000)
Windows NT was the first Windows operating system based on a hybrid kernel. The hybrid kernel was designed as a modified microkernel, influenced by the Mach microkernel developed by Richard Rashid at Carnegie Mellon University, but without meeting all of the criteria of a pure microkernel.