26 May
2000
26 May
'00
3:44 p.m.
At 10:51 AM 5/26/00 -0700, you wrote:
"Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" wrote:
No, Gordon has been at Microsoft since long before OS/2. I think he came
Don't forget that OS/2 was written by Gordon Letwin
AT MICROSOFT!
You might enjoy reading "Inside OS/2" by Gordon Letwin; from Microsoft
Press.
I think you mean "who is AT MICROSOFT now". IIRC, he was not at Microsoft
when he was originally working on OS/2.
from Heath in the very early days when BASIC was pretty
much the only
product Microsoft had.
The original OS/2 1.0 (character mode only) was a partnership of IBM and
Microsoft although nearly all the 1.0 code was done by MS. The 1.1 release
which included PM (developed at IBM's Hursley labs) was the first major
contribution by IBM that I'm aware of.
Microsoft released the first OS/2 SDK's available in late 1988 (mine cost
$3000!) and held several developer's conferences in 88 and 89. They
continued to ship OS/2 under their label through verion 1.2. 1.3 was the
forst release that was available solely from IBM.
Regards,
Bob