From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 30 12:43:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [209.98.143.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23CF037BC31 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:43:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from bone.nectar.com (bone.nectar.com [10.0.1.105]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E07D69B36; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:43:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: by bone.nectar.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 712CF1DCB; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:43:26 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:43:26 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Mark Ovens Cc: Doug White , Haikal Saadh , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM supercomputer Message-ID: <20000630144326.I91583@bone.nectar.com> References: <007e01bfe325$45a687e0$49a393cb@timberwolf> <20000630141610.G91583@bone.nectar.com> <20000630203703.H232@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000630203703.H232@parish>; from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:37:03PM +0100 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:37:03PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > The misconception probably arises because OS/2 was going to be what NT > is now (if M$ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message