On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Brian wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Dave Sherman wrote: > > > Actually, NT bastardized IBM's OS/2. Maybe OS/2 bastardized Unix, but I > > have my doubts. > > I'm a tad too much on the outside of the OS/2 circle but what I remember > from v2 and v3 is that it was more like bastardizing DOS, but since I'm > way too young to remember which was first I might be totally off on > that. Let the truth be known... OS/2 beat MS to the 32 bit OS by a LONG > shot. MS was just pissed when they found out they were actually > developing for the competition :-) First 32-bit OS was VMS, 1976. Dave Cutler was the system architect. He left DEC in 1989 about the time Ken Olsen (president and founder of DEC) retired. Took a job as system architect for Windows NT at Microsoft. I won't go on more about it here -- http://www.rephil.org/ntvms if you want to read a little of my history of the subject. -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous