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From: "Gautier of my Mollin" <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>
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>[...]
>I'm not at all convinced that Microsoft
>was happy with this situation, and it tried to unify the Windows
>platforms over and over again.

Effectively, I guess that such an unification is not easy.
For certain aspects NT has not evolved as well as the 9x line
and maybe never do, this is maybe more an human issue than
a technical one. Back to Compaq: same for "DEC Ada" and "GNAT".
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Gautier  --  http://www.diax.ch/users/gdm/

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