Date: 29 Jun 2001 23:43:25 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win2k a rewrite or not??? Message-ID: <xzpithfuflu.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20010629143124.B60314@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010629143124.B60314@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> writes: > I've heard win2k was a near total re-write of the codebase, and i've heard > it is just a relabeled, reworked NT would-have-been 5.0. Does anybody know > the truth on this? I think it's somewhere in between. As I understand the matter, it's what would have been NT 5.0 (but was renamed to merge the Windows 9x and Windows NT product lines), but it has been extensively overhauled and rewritten. I may be wrong, though. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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