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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS
Date: 2000/01/13
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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.

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