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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS
Date: 2000/01/13
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Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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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.
>
The first betas of NT were released in 1993 (March if I remember correctly).