Microsoft OSes

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed Feb 4 18:04:37 1998

<NT prior to 3.x was called MS LAN Manager, and didn't compare particularl
<well to anything.

NT prior to NT wasn't. NT was a divergent design that is non dos
filesystem. LANMAN is the networking component of WFW3.11.

The divergence from OS/2 and windows3.x was also influenced by MS getting
Cutler an OS heavy that created DEC RSX-11 and early VMS incantations.
the idea of NT was clean sheet 32bit OS with multitasking, multiprocessing
and inherant networking all of which were glueons for windows. OS/2 was
a different path from NT with a different base designer.

In reality NT is not a stand alone OS as it requires windows as the user
interface wher OS/2 it was a add on. Also the roots for OS/2 go back
further and it was the DOS replacement with all the things that DOS
still does not have.

Allison
Received on Wed Feb 04 1998 - 18:04:37 GMT