From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e2839f528cc1c40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS Date: 2000/01/13 Message-ID: <85lgu1$kdj$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 572232965 References: <387C8CB3.1276637F@icn.siemens.de> <85j75o$ofk$1@news08.btx.dtag.de> <85jd6g$9qe2@news.cis.okstate.edu> <2000Jan13.081844.1@eisner> <85krc6$2mj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <2000Jan13.135331.1@eisner> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x39.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Jan 13 21:43:33 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtedennison Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 2000-01-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <2000Jan13.135331.1@eisner>, Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote: > In article <85krc6$2mj$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Ted Dennison 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. -- T.E.D. http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.