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!

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