Kåre Olai Lindbach (
[email protected]) wrote:
: On 26 Apr 2004 12:04:14 -0700, (e-mail address removed) (GreenLight) wrote:
: >>
: >> Of interest, MS C++ versions 5 and 6 are Win9x / NT4 based,
: >> more specific, true MSDOS based.
: >
: >Could you please stop saying stuff like this? NT4 is no more "MSDOS
: >based" than I am. Microsoft wrote Windows NT 3.5 from scratch, more
: >than a decade ago. It was not MSDOS, and was not based upon MSDOS. All
: >versions of NT/Win2000/WinXP come from this codebase.
: Although MS did a rewrite of NT newer versions, the NT OS itself is
: based on IBMs OS/2, from what I have learned.
NT was designed and built from scratch under the direction of one Dave
Cutler, based on his (Dave's) experience designing and developing RSX-11,
VMS, and VAXELN, (all operating systems used by the now defunct Digital
Equipment Corp.).
I do not beleive it was in anyway "based" on OS/2. Certainly, NT has may
fundamental differences, including using 16 bit wide characters in all
routines in the kernel, and it was designed to run on numerous different
hardware platforms. I doubt that any of that code could have been taken
from any OS/2 code.