[theFIRMbss]

>windows defeated OS/2; the latter was tremendously superior.

Windows NT was
OS/2. Check out Torvalds'
story, Just for Fun

[dep]

no, it wasn't. they were similar and shared a common lineage, but they were different in numerous important ways, and in all of those OS/2 was superior. particularly when you consider that OS/2 offered features in 1992 that nt never got round to providing, not least of them being the wps.

dep

[B Knotts]

Windows NT was OS/2.

That is true...sort of. At the time that NT was developed, OS/2 was a 16-bit OS co-developed by IBM and Microsoft.

They parted ways after OS/2 1.2, and Microsoft developed the sort-of-microkernel-based NT as their 32-bit offering, while IBM took a more gradual approach to removing Microsoft's 16-bit code from OS/2.

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