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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 17:49:51 GMT
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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.
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