On 01 Feb 2002 05:51:01 -0600, Mitch Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 20:53, Lee Roberts wrote:
> > On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 12:36 PM, Gerard Perreault wrote:
> > >
> > > You can expect a feirce battle ahead. They are already trying to
> > > diversify,
> > > the X box is an example. Pretty soon, products like Lindows, VMware,
> > > Wine and
> > > the likes will make M$-Windows a sub-system, something running under the
> > > control of another major OS, and with time it will be less and less
> > > used even
> > > if available.
> > >
> >
> > IBM had a similar concept when OS/2 Warp was released. It failed even
> > though OS/2 is much better than Windows, IMO. Better luck with Linux........
> >
>
> Wasn't OS/2 a forerunner of Windows NT? Seems like I recall reading a
> long time ago that OS/2 was a collaborative effort between Microsoft and
> IBM. For whatever reason, the two companies quit the venture, and
> Microsoft "stole" the concepts of OS/2 and made NT.
MS and IBM 'co-developed' OS/2 (in reality, MS did almost all the work) until
version 1.3. From that point, the two split, forking the code base in the
process. IBM continued OS/2 development to 2.0, while MS turned their code into
NT 3.1 (after hiring several core VMS engineers).
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