30 Jul
2024
30 Jul
'24
12:30 p.m.
On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 01:28, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Gordon Letwin at Microsoft developed OS/2. But
Microsoft sold it off to
IBM, and it became known as an IBM product.
That is not quite how I remember it...
Microsoft used some key technology from it in
developing WindowsNT.
Within Microsoft's offerings, NT competed with non-NT windows, such as
Windows95, Windows98, and Windows2000.
One small slip here:
The DOS-based versions were 95 (& (& 95A, 95B, & 95C), 98 (& 98SE) and
ME.
Windows 2000 is NT 5.0.
Naming a version after the year it is released is
great for sales in the
first year, and a serious liability in subsequent years, unless there is
actually going to be a new version every year (as automobiles do)
Agreed.
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