On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 06:40, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > 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). >
Thanks! -- Mitch Thompson, San Antonio TX Key fingerprint = BBDA 3A2A 4483 BD0D 7CED B8A9 D183 C8F6 B0AF 66AE -- Steve Balmer, CEO of Microsoft�, recently referred to Linux as a cancer. Unsuprisingly, this is incorrect - Linux was released on August 25th, 1991, and is therefore a virgo.
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