That's actually less accurate, not more. It's a post-hoc revision that conflates Unix with Linux.

The Unix model was invented over a decade before the idea of multithreading percolated into mainstream operating systems at all.

The reason that Windows NT started as it did, was that OS/2 had come out in 1987, with kernel threads, and the idea of multithreading had taken root. SunOS 5 gained threading, too.

Windows NT applications development began with threading available as a mechanism from the start, and with a lot of people in the IBM/Microsoft world already knowing about its use in applications development from OS/2.

Whereas with the Unices it came in more gradually, as the applications had often already been designed. The whole libthread versus libpthread thing made things interesting on SunOS for a few years, too. As did the first attempt (LinuxThreads) at providing threads on Linux.