1 Jan
2008
1 Jan
'08
7:39 p.m.
At 5:18 PM -0800 1/1/08, Fred Cisin wrote:
"Shortly after this split, Microsoft renamed OS/2
V3 to Windows NT."
MOST people do NOT consider NT to be a "renaming of OS/2".
MICROS~1 does acknowledge a very substantial amount of OS/2 code used in
creating NT. But many people say that much of the remainder is code
stolen from DEC!
Unconfirmed anecdote: When Cutler went to MICROS~1 and headed up the NT
project, he wanted to move away from OS/2, and towards VMS code. DEC
desperately wanted an Alpha port of NT, so they signed a release on any
incidental pieces of their code that might end up in NT. Only later did
they find out how much of it came from them.
Another problem with the OS/2 V3 statement is that Microsoft was last
involved with V1.2, V1.3 and forward were IBM's work. It wouldn't
surprise me if Microsoft was involved in V2, and it wasn't until V2.1
that the OS was really good.
I was a big OS/2 fan from '91-95, though at the beginning of '92 I
started using Linux. I switched to the Mac in '95, though have
continued to use Linux and Unix as well. I added VMS to the mix at
home in '98.
Zane
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