7 Feb
2018
7 Feb
'18
8:42 p.m.
On 7 February 2018 at 03:27, Wesley Parish <wobblygong(a)gmail.com> wrote:
OS/2 and Windows (including WinNT 3.x) just
added a pretty-pretty interface. OS/2 was more sophisticated than
WinNT's because OS/2 expected to share the hard drive with some other
OS; Microsoft believed it had the computer to itself and is thus not
as sophisticated - but they're still MS/PC/DR DOS writ large.
I would disagree with this assessment. NT's VMS heritage has already
been discussed. I do not know the heritage of OS/2 but to call it DOS
is simply not true. (Among other things, OS/2 did an excellent job of
virtualizing dosboxes. We were developing PCMCIA drivers with OS/2 in
dosboxes. When one crashed, you simply opened up another and
continued.)
N.