Subject: Re: Unix, Win32 & Posix subsystems [was: TeX implementations?]
From: [email-masked] ("Phillip Toland")

31 Oct 1996 23:02:10 -0800
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> 
> Talking about that, i recall that MS long times ago gave the
> sources of NT to universities and schools?! Anybody knows if
> this is true? For NT 1.0 or 4.0?
> 

Actually, there never was an NT 1.0, per se.  NT 1 and 2 were known as
"Microsoft OS/2".  Because of differences of opinions, MS and IBM split up
after OS/2 2.x and OS/2 3.0 was an IBM-only thing, and MS's share of the
code became NT 3.0. Supposedly MS completely rebuilt NT from the ground up,
but I am puzzled by the fact that they introduced it as 3.0 instead of 1.0
(perhaps it is because MS has a bad reputation of having crappy first
releases).  Anyway, MS might have given out the code for the "transitional"
NT (i.e., before 3.0 was released), but they get large amounts of money
from different people who want to liscense the source for  applications
development, etc.  
 
Phil
"Ook." --The Librarian

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