On Friday 08 February 2008 18:34, G T Smith wrote:
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).
I didn't get to work with it until the 3.0 days. I'd been fighting with Win3.x and was so mad because it wouldn't multi-task. Well, it would, but if one program crashed it took out the entire thing. Once I started with OS/2 I could run a lot of programs at once and not worry about crashes.
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
Well, there ya go. ;-) They probably took the worst of all three and put it together. I never ran the first incantation of NT, but did have the "privilege" of running NT 3.51. It would run for a while, and then die. About the only one I've used that's stable is 2000.
Oddly SuSE appears not to have a history according to the Linux section
Hmm. Interesting. I know that it started out from what I've heard as a derivative of Slackware. But I didn't start with it until 5.3 back in 1998. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 X86_64 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 6:40pm up 176 days 23:12, 5 users, load average: 2.09, 2.14, 2.15 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org