[Coco] Microsoft files for patent on "modular operating system"

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 01 February 2007 08:49, Brian Blake wrote:

>An interesting discussion on this OS2/NT based OS issue. I was messing

> with a parallel port project over the holidays, and screwed up. Since

> then on boot up, instead of the the windows XP boot screen, it now

> shows OS2 Warp. This PC has never had OS2 on it...

>

Interesting.  Most  Interesting.  Particularly to the IBM folks I'd bet.  
Can you get a picture of it to post someplace?


>Brian

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>Subject: Re: [Coco] Microsoft files for patent on "modular operating

> system"

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>Joel Ewy wrote:

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>> Actually, though M'Soft did originally work with IBM on OS/2, they

>> backed out and started working on NT instead.  As far as I know, NT is

>> really almost completely unrelated to OS/2 on a technical level.

>

>Windows NT's original name was "OS/2 NT", and indeed you can still run

>text-mode OS/2 v1.x programs on Windows XP.

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