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

[Brian Blake]

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...


Brian

----- Original Message ----
From: Jeff Teunissen <deek at d2dc.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2007 5:37:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Microsoft files for patent on "modular operating system"

Joel Ewy wrote:

[snip]

> 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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