Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:43:26 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> To: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM supercomputer Message-ID: <20000630144326.I91583@bone.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <20000630203703.H232@parish>; from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:37:03PM %2B0100 References: <007e01bfe325$45a687e0$49a393cb@timberwolf> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006300854490.21808-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <20000630141610.G91583@bone.nectar.com> <20000630203703.H232@parish>
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:37:03PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> The misconception probably arises because OS/2 was going to be what NT
> is now (if M$ 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.
It certainly reeks of NIH (something for which IBM was traditionally
blamed). But it isn't the whole story:
OS/2 up through 1.2 --- joint developed by Microsoft/IBM
1.3 --- IBM
2.x --- IBM
never released 3.x --- Microsoft
IBM/Microsoft had agreed at a point that IBM would work on improving the
existing OS/2 (1.x and 2.x), while Microsoft would do development of
the OS/2 3 line. Only Microsoft wanted the Windows API, not PM, and so
instead of OS/2 3, they got Windows NT.
In fact, early design for OS/2 3 was similar to what was released as
Windows NT 3.1: an ``executive'' layer with two personalities: OS/2 API
and POSIX API. Then a Windows API was thrown in.
> When M$ and IBM went their separate ways M$ developed NT from Win 3.x
> (and doesn't it show?).
Other than the Windows on Windows stuff, there isn't much Windows 3.1 code
in Windows NT, AFAIK.
--
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org
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