-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 :-) - -- ============================================================================== 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 ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHrJKmasN0sSnLmgIRAhwVAKC6Yt93iNcL0Cmn7X2SXPc7dpaFBgCfWNvG fiFsjR7IyzQbk+BKpasgkEE= =PcYL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org