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Re: MSLINUX



On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:55:25PM +0900, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> Well, yes and no.  OS/2 was originated by IBM, but it was made a
> joint project with MS (talk about sleeping with the enemy!) but 
> after a while it became really obvious that MS did not have its 
> heart in the OS/2 project and IBM and MS went their separate ways.  

NT _is_ MS OS/2.  The filesystem (was) identical back in the day of NT 3.1,
and a lot of the binaries still had strings embedded that identified their
OS/2 derivation.

-- Chris


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