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[G T Smith <grahamsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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


I remember OS/2 as a bit of a cripple when it first came out, (I was
tasked with writing a GUI graphics editor to edit greysale photographic
images which proved to be a little difficult as the colour support API
basically was not implemented when it was first released).

However this link is a bit interesting on OS history...

http://www.oshistory.net/metadot/index.pl

- From this it appears that NT 3.1 was an amalgam of VMS 5.4, Windows 3.0
and OS/2 2.1.1 SE

Oddly SuSE appears not to have a history according to the Linux section
:-)

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I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my
telephone.
My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Bjarne Stroustrup
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