Eris Discordia wrote:
MS-DOS never had Unicode support. Neither did any Windows version up to 3.1, NT 3.5, and 95. NT 4 introduced it into the Microsoft sphere in 1996. In 5-6 years--from 1996 to 2001--Windows surpassed Plan 9 in Unicode handling, in all practical aspects.
I'm pretty far from being either a Plan 9, or much less, a Windows apologist. However, this is just wrong. NT was Unicode from the beginning, even at the kernel level. Ask any poor sod who had to work on the NT kernel back then.
