OS/2 (was: OT! Re: [TriLUG] Defeated by a website..)

[Kevin Flanagan]

On Friday 31 December 2004 01:23 pm, Scott G. Hall wrote:

> OS/2 originally started as a joint venture between IBM and Microsoft.
> When Microsoft could not take the terms of the deal anymore, they
> forked their own variation, called Win-NT.
>
It's always been my understanding, and I've been intimately involved with NT 
in all of it's varieties, that NT was a clean build from OS/2. 

Dave Cutler worked for DEC, created RSX/11 and VMS there, his next project was 
code named prism, when that project was cancelled he went over to Microsoft 
and created NT.  I continue to find things in Windows 2003 Server that are 
almost direct ports from VMS.  Did you know that starting with 2003 Server 
you can adjust "Quantum", the slice of time a process gets when it gets it's 
turn "on processor".  That's something that we did adjust on VMS systems back 
in the 80's.  There are Registry keys that are almost directly taken from 
VMS, IRP stack size is adjustable, think network buffers.    Most likely none 
of this is all that interesting to the Linux community, except for the 
general geekiness of it all.  ;')

It's been my understanding that they took most of the same talent from the 
OS/2 dev team, and started over with Dave's leadership.


Then again, I could be wrong.....


Kevin


Kevin