begin quoting Paul G. Allen as of Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:24:51PM -0700: > On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 21:25 -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > I found it interesting that OS/2 was a joint M$/IBM project. > > Early on it was a joint project, then M$ went and came out with NT (both > used the same file system).
I thought the split was at MSWindows 3.1, not NT. http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/OS2History.html Hm. MSWindows 3.0, it seems... And they claim that OS/2 3.0 became NT. This isn't what I remember hearing at the time, but who knows? [snip] > multitasking (it was a true preemptive system), and was the first object > oriented OS (maybe it's still the only one?) designed that way from the > ground up. I'm quite sure that Smalltalk predates OS/2, and BeOS follows it... > If IBM had continued to support it, improve it, and update it as Linux > has been, I would be running OS/2 today. Ah, a refugee. -- Another refugee. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
