From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 30 12:37:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.server.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 233E237B5A0 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:37:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.90.12]) by mta01-svc.server.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000630193711.MTZS381.mta01-svc.server.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:37:11 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01493; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:37:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:37:03 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: Doug White , Haikal Saadh , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM supercomputer Message-ID: <20000630203703.H232@parish> References: <007e01bfe325$45a687e0$49a393cb@timberwolf> <20000630141610.G91583@bone.nectar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000630141610.G91583@bone.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 02:16:10PM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 02:16:10PM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:55:10AM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Haikal Saadh wrote: > > > > > OS/2 perhaps? Wasn't win95 'born' from OS/2? > > > > s/95/NT/ > > I think this is a common misconception. Windows NT did (does?) have a > OS/2-like subsystem, but the resemblance ends there. > The misconception probably arises because OS/2 was going to be what NT is now (if M$ hadn't thrown their toys out of the cot when IBM wanted Presentation Manager instead of the Windows GUI), i.e. a 32-bit multi-tasking OS. When M$ and IBM went their separate ways M$ developed NT from Win 3.x (and doesn't it show?). > NT was much more influenced by VMS, Mach, RSX11, and Windows 3.1 than > OS/2. > -- > Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message