On Sun, 4 May 3901 08:39:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
> On the sad day of 2 May 2001 10:05:13 GMT, Jens Manfredson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Let's start with a layman's explanation of OS/2. It isn't a Microsoft
> >> operating system, and it certainly isn't NT
> >
> >OS/2 is also from microsoft and NT is based on OS/2.
> >
>
> AFAIK, NT is based on VMS, not OS/2
>
They share some common heritage if nothing else; as for the "OS/2
sub-system" in NT (mentioned in the NT v.4 help) and NT 3.x's ability
to run 16-bit OS/2 applications.
But then again that was then, and this is probably not the right
place/group.
(Though I do know VMS fits in there somewhere, too... were the initial
NT programmers VMS coders?)
Jeff
>
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