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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!129.35.248.10!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com!not-for-mail 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 Organization: ISSC South Region, RTP, NC Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5idc2j$13ku$1@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <5iat1s$t48@news.ml.com> Reply-To: nobody@read.my.sig (Joerg Pommnitz) NNTP-Posting-Host: a17.raleigh.ibm.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19977 comp.os.linux.misc:168719 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38732 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. -- Joerg Pommnitz |Joerg@Raleigh.ibm.com| Never attribute to malloc Mobile/Wireless |Dept UMRA | that which can be adequately T/L (919)254-6397|Office B502/E117 | explained by stupidity.