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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (64329)	1/22/2002 2:08:19 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Charles - that VMS => WNT thing is clever but historically inaccurate. NT was developed as OS/2 NG (next generation) from 1988 until early 1992. The collapse of the MSFT /IBM alliance over OS/2 version 1.3 (when MS published their own version, which would run in 1MB, while IBM insisted on their version, which required 4MB, an unheard-of amount for a base OS at that time) made the OS/2 nomenclature untenable. Windows took off about that time with Version 3.1, so MSFT marketing, in a jab at IBM and to leverage the Windows brand, renamed OS/2 NG to Windows NT and brought it out as version 3.1 also, even though it was the initial release. NT originally ran HPFS, the OS/2 file system, and that was supported until version 4. So much for the geek theory.