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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!en.com!uunet!in2.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 17:49:51 GMT Organization: ISSC South Region, RTP, NC Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5ie0fv$r2q$1@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <5iat1s$t48@news.ml.com> <5idc2j$13ku$1@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com> <E8BvKJ.L7M@nonexistent.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:19993 comp.os.linux.misc:168780 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38746 In <E8BvKJ.L7M@nonexistent.com>, le@put.com (Louis Epstein) writes: >: OS/2 should be part of this picture. IIRC WinNT used to be >: OS/2 3.0. > >Not quite...an alternate v. 2,perhaps? I think OS/2 2.0 was in development at IBM/Boca Raton. Microsoft prepared the next (portable) release. After the divorce this became WinNT. I'm not really sure about this, but this is the way I remember it. -- 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.