On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:41:23PM +0100, Aitor Santamaria Merino said this:
> Simon Waite wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:55:26PM +0100, Jensen, Gerard said this:
> >
> >>>>Linux is a rewrite of BSD.
> >>>>
> >>>No, Linux is rewrite of Minix.
> >>>
> >[snip]
> >
> >>No, Linux is a bit more than just a rewrite of Minix... ;-))
> >>
> >>Or would you call OS/2 a "rewrite of Windows 3.0"?
> >>
> >No, I'd call NT a rewrite of OS/2, and Windows 95 a rewrite of windows 3.11
> >
> Hmm. What was rewritten? The "operating system" was retouched a bit, and 
> the graphical user interface a lot, but "rewritten" is not the word that 
> I'd use ;-)
> 

To be fair, NT allows different subsystems ie. OS2, Dos, POSIX
Though a lot of the Win32 API does look *EXCEEDINGLY* similar to
OS/2 calls.

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