Subj : Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : Nightfox
From : Vorlon
Date : Tue May 02 2023 11:32:12

Hi Nightfox,

 On Monday May 01 2023, Nightfox said to Vorlon:

 Vo>> Windows 2000, was the first stable verion of windows.. It could even
 Vo>> run os/2 console progs... #-)

 N> Wasn't Windows NT (before Windows 2000) supposed to be fairly stable?
 N> Windows NT was always targeted toward businesses.

Yes it was stable, but a lot of software didn't like running on it as it
really was aimed at business people and server op's.

 N> And I heard NT was based on a fork of OS/2 that Microsoft got when they split with IBM -  N> and that's why it (along with Windows 2000, which was based on NT) was
 N> able to run OS/2 console programs.

Yes that's correct, both NT/2000 has origins in OS/2.. It wasn't long though
before MS pulled that support though.



\/orlon
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Stephen

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