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Explain how it was like that in the case of NT. IBM went their own way with OS/2 and Microsoft hired Dave Cutler from Digital to develop NT over several years.
by kyberias 6y ago
Explain how it was like that in the case of NT.
IBM went their own way with OS/2 and Microsoft hired Dave Cutler from Digital to develop NT over several years. Windows NT is not OS/2. It never was.
- 29athrowaway 6y agoThat is a mischaracterization of what happened. Microsoft unilaterally changed the OS/2 3.0 API to the match the Windows API, IBM did not approve of that, and then the project split, with the Microsoft version of OS/2 3.0 becoming Windows NT.