Re: Project: FreeOS

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <2000Jan13.135331.1@eisner>,
  Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:
> In article <85krc6$2mj$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Ted Dennison
<dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> > 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

They were advertiszed that way? They certianly aren't all that
compatable. Some of the GUI calls may be similar I suppose.

Now Win95 is different, and it uses many of the same calls as NT. And
the NT "DOS" command shell uses the same command syntax as DOS did (for
the most part). But to my knowledge NT not at all backward compatable
with DOS or Windows 3.1. Its internals certianly bear no resemblence.

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