dpb news 14:21:04 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

On 04/10/2017 4:56 AM, Diesel wrote:
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Entirely IBMS fault, too. They did a great job writing an OS, and
an absolutely terrible job advertising it to recruit users and
developers. Windows NT was born from the fallout.

NT came along earlier when MS hired the VMS architect after DEC
collapsed and he refused to consider OS/2 as viable.

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/nt-and-os2/

The relationship between NT and 32-bit OS/2 is very murky. It is
known that Microsoft was working on 32-bit OS/2 2.0 in the late
1980s. It is also known that NT was initially meant to support a 32-
bit OS/2 API, but that plan was later scrapped for obvious political
reasons. At least one feature "exception handling" is so similar
between OS/2 2.0 and NT and at the same so unique in context of other
operating systems that it was clearly designed by the same group of
people, and the implementations were intended to be compatible.

In 1990, after Microsoft internally decided to dump OS/2 and
concentrate entirely on Windows, most of Microsoft’s OS/2 developers
were reassigned to NT. However, that did not influence the basic
design of NT, which had been created long before then. NT adopted
several technologies from OS/2, but very little or no code (16-bit
Intel assembly code was of little use within NT). HPFS and FAT
filesystem support was written from scratch for NT, the NDIS network
driver interface underwent a major overhaul, LAN Manager components
were rewritten.

On a more mundane level, OS/2 was the platform used to build NT
before NT became self-supporting. After all, who wanted to develop on
DOS. Aside from editors and compilers, OS/2 also ran the Intel i860
emulator used in the very early stages of NT development, before any
hardware was available.

After the Microsoft-IBM split, the relationship between NT and OS/2
became somewhat schizophrenic. Microsoft sometimes tried to pretend
that OS/2 had never existed and sometimes loudly bad-mouthed anything
IBM did with OS/2. At the same time, NT (up to and including Windows
2000) shipped with an OS/2 subsystem which ran character-mode 16-bit
OS/2 applications. Microsoft also had a Presentation Manager add-on
for NT which supported OS/2 GUI applications, a semi-secret product
hinted at in documentation but never actually advertised.

In the end, Windows NT survived and OS/2 did not, although OS/2’s
demise had arguably more to do with Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 than
NT.

[1] Zachary, G. Pascal (1994). Showstopper!. The Free
Press/Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-935671-7

What you wrote isn't wrong, mind you, but, what I wrote isn't wrong,
either.

They have a very, checkered past to say the least. And, I was still a
kid when this all went down. Suffice to say, OS/2 didn't make it, and
NT is still alive and well (er, depending on your POV)




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