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From: nobody@read.my.sig (Joerg Pommnitz)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 8 Apr 1997 12:01:23 GMT
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In <5iat1s$t48@news.ml.com>, willettm@ml.com (Mike Willett LADS LDN X1176) writes:
>
>Q-DOS->MS-DOS->W*nd*ws->Win95
>Multics
>Unix  (The name was pun but a complete re-write)
>RSX-11 -> VMS -> Digital's new kernel (never released)
>Win NT (programmed by the team who programmed Digital's new kernel
>	but ofcource doesn't involve any of the code otherwise they
>	would get sued - and when did you ever hear MS getting sued
>	but unethical business practices ???)
>
>I think is might be a bit closer but I'm sure I'll be corrected.

OS/2 should be part of this picture. IIRC WinNT used to be
OS/2 3.0.

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