Wasn't there a thread somewhere recently (maybe here on PLUG-discuss?) stating that the original name for [what eventually became] "Windows NT", was "OS/2 3.0"? I think it was partly based on some BSD or something. Plus, I think it served as the baseline for many later versions of Windows (e.g. W 2000 etc.) -- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ schwartz@acm.org Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com On 6/29/07, Dan Lund wrote: > > Msdos was fashioned from cp/m, apple macos from a xerox parc project, > windows from macos, os/2 from a posix environment, winnt 3.x from os/2 > and VMS. > > On 6/29/07, Michael Havens had written: > > Is that true? I thought I had read that Microsoft was built on top of > UNIX > > at one time. What about Apple? > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...] > -- > [...] > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...]