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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS
Date: 2000/01/13
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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