On Friday 08 February 2008 18:11, James Knott wrote:
Mike wrote:
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
Back in those days, NT etc. had an OS/2 subsystem, which could be used to run text mode 16 bit OS/2 apps. I even tried HyperAccess on it and while it would run, it did so poorly. NT had it, XP doesn't and I'm not sure about W2000.
I know it's on 2000, and just looked at XP which doesn't like you said. I guess they finally figured out how to write code to replace it. I remember running Win3.x programs on OS/2 and always having to update the .dll's after M$ changed the API. I did some further reading, and VMS is in there somewhere. The guy that M$ hired was from VMS and didn't think too much of OS/2. One thing I've noticed is that when there is an NTFS partition to be mounted, I see it as hpfs/ntfs. I liked hpfs because it worked. I don't remember defgragging it. But once M$ started screwing with it, you had to do it. Not as often as FAT, but it still needs to be done. Either way, it's still a crappy OS. BSOD is the screen of the day. When it goes, it goes quickly. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 X86_64 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 6:13pm up 176 days 22:45, 5 users, load average: 2.07, 2.14, 2.15 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org