From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS
Date: 2000/01/13
Date: 2000-01-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2000Jan13.135331.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85krc6$2mj$1@nnrp1.deja.com
In article <85krc6$2mj$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> In article <2000Jan13.081844.1@eisner>,
> Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:
>
>> I believe the most recently originated operating system that is
>> popular today is MacOS, dating from 1984. Perhaps it is OS/400,
>> depending on when System 34 was created. Certainly MVS, VMS and Unix
>> are quite a bit older than 1984.
>
> NT isn't really backward-compatable with any previous OS, and was not
> created until about 1994 or so I believe.
The programming interfaces are compatible with previous Windows efforts
(or advertised as such) and thus it carries the baggage of providing that
backward compatibility. There is even a way to get a "DOS window".
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-12 0:00 Project: FreeOS Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Juergen Pfeifer
2000-01-13 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Terry Sikes
2000-01-13 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-18 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Mario Klebsch
2000-01-20 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
2000-01-22 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
[not found] ` <vhi3drwe773.fsf@grotte.ifi.uio.no>
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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