On Friday 08 February 2008 17:31, G T Smith wrote:
J Windows NT as originally designed was secure but a combination of inputs from the sales team and the application group compromised what was a reasonably secure design extremely badly. (Essentially Microsoft bought the VMS design team from Digital, and NT originally owed a lot to VMS). The windows 9x/98/Me code stream was really Windows(4?)/MSDOS 7 with the GUI as a compulsory option.
According to several folks, including IBM, Windows NT (new Technology) was a rebrand of OS/2 v3.0 when IBM and Microsoft parted ways. One link is http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/OS2History.html . I have a feeling that somewhere along the line, someone decided to combine VMS and OS/2 and see what happened. For years, all the incarnations of NT from 3.5 to 2000 had a directory under system called os2. I'd have to look at work, but I think the only file in that directory is os2.dll. I once deleted it just for fun, and the system ground to a halt. But I think that was NT4, and has since been fixed. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 X86_64 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 5:49pm up 176 days 22:22, 5 users, load average: 2.20, 2.19, 2.18 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org