On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:54:48 -0500
James Knott
You'd better brush up on your history. IBM hired MS to develop OS/2. MS misappropriated the money to develop Windows. OS/2 was to be the desktop system and NT the server.
http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/OS2History.html
"By late 1990, Microsoft had intensified its disagreements with IBM to the point where IBM decided that it would have to take some overt action to ensure that OS/2 development continued at a reasonable pace. IBM, therefore, took over complete development responsibility for OS/2 1.x, even though it was in its dying days, and OS/2 2.00. Microsoft would continue development on Windows and OS/2 3.00. Shortly after this split, Microsoft renamed OS/2 V3 to Windows NT."
This contradicts David Cutler's words in Inside Windows NT which was
designed from the ground up and was supposed to replace OS/2 as well as
Unix. NT was designed to run on both the Intel platforms as well as
RISC platforms, such as SGI MIPS and Digital Alpha. OS/2 was not. While
some features of OS/2 were incorporated into NT, such as LAN manager,
NT was not a descendent of OS/2. And yes, I agree that IBM did hire
MSFT to initially develop OS/2. I actually used OS/2 in a couple of
projects in the 90s, and it was a decent OS.
--
--
Jerry Feldman