From: peter AT datadok DOT no ("Peter N. M. Hansteen") Subject: NT history (was: Re: Unix, Win32 & Posix subsystems [was: TeX implementations?]) 1 Nov 1996 03:25:07 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961101095223.006d0cfc.cygnus.gnu-win32@datadok.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: peter AT datadok DOT no X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Original-To: "Phillip Toland" Original-Cc: Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >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, I know this is off-topic for the list, but anyway: I remember reading an article infoworld about the time OS/2 1.3 was released about the future directions for OS/2. It said Microsoft had started work on a 'portable rewrite' of OS/2, which would be marketed under the name 'OS/2 NT - NT for New Technology', probably as OS/2 version 3. However, the cooperation between MS and IBM started deteriorating shortly after the article was printed. On the other hand, the project to build what was to become NT is rumored to have started at DEC, where Dave Cutler (who also was at least partly responsible for the VMS OS) came from. Folklore has it that DEC didn't believe in the project, and Cutler was allowed to take his team with him across to Microsoft. >but I am puzzled by the fact that they introduced it as 3.0 instead of 1.0 3.1 was the first released version. The reason: simple marketing. The other windows-labeled systems products were at revision level 3.1 at the time. The other reason is probably that they believe 'version 1.0' to be a dirty word. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen peter AT datadok DOT no, peternm AT sn DOT no Datadokumentasjon A/S, Bredsgaarden 2, N-5003 Bergen, Norway Tel: +47 55 32 08 02 Fax: +47 55 32 14 95 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".