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Date:      Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:16:10 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM supercomputer
Message-ID:  <20000630141610.G91583@bone.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006300854490.21808-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:55:10AM -0700
References:  <007e01bfe325$45a687e0$49a393cb@timberwolf> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006300854490.21808-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:55:10AM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Haikal Saadh wrote:
> 
> > OS/2 perhaps? Wasn't win95 'born' from OS/2?
> 
> s/95/NT/

I think this is a common misconception.  Windows NT did (does?) have a
OS/2-like subsystem, but the resemblance ends there.

NT was much more influenced by VMS, Mach, RSX11, and Windows 3.1 than
OS/2.
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org


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