Re: what was the single mgmt decision made in mid-1990s. period

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep - at one time, MS was going to write, along with IBM, OS/2 3.0. Then 
MS decided to make Win NT an extension of the Windows API, not OS/2 - 
the rift with IBM begins.

That info was drawn from a Wiki article at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT

From that article is a reference to DEC -

"Microsoft hired a group of developers from Digital Equipment 
Corporation </wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation> led by Dave Cutler 
</wiki/Dave_Cutler> to build Windows NT, and many elements of the design 
reflect earlier DEC experience with Cutler's VMS 
</wiki/Virtual_Memory_System> and RSX-11 </wiki/RSX-11>."

Hence the urban legend that WNT was just VMS but one letter higher - 
maybe as reliable as the relationship between HAL and IBM.

David Gibbs wrote:
> Lukas Beeler wrote:
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> > Windows NT was designed from the ground up for network, server
> > operations and multi user capability.
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> 'course Windows NT was essentially a fork of OS/2 (at least in the beginning).
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