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Aloone_Jonez:
It doesn't have to be that bad they could just stick a Windows emulator on top to run all the legacy code.

I agree though, NT is the only option for MS.

Anyway where did NT originate from?

Did they buy, or steel it from anyone, or is it the only ture MS operating system?

How can anyone be sure that it doesn't contain any stolen Linux code?

They wasted nearly a decade on dos before they dumped it for NT.

  :D   NT. Doesn't that mean new technology, that's over ten years old?

hm_murdock:
NT is their own thing, built by Dave Cutler who worked on VMS. the idea originally was to port Windows to VMS I believe, and add the capabilities that they contributed to OS/2. it evoloved into a full OS of its own.

NT did mean New Technology, yes. The NT kernel is now called the Windows Engine

WMD:
If Windows was Unix based, it wouldn't mean there'd be Linux drivers out of nowhere.  Drivers are per kernel - Linux drivers are different from FreeBSD drivers, even though they're both Unix.

And NT is like, part VMS, part DOS (for compatibility), and part-some unknown stuff.

To correct a small error by Jimmy - they weren't going to port NT to VMS, that's an OS.  You meant port it to VAX or Alpha.  Which kinda-sorta happened with NT 3.1, but not much after.

hm_murdock:
I was under the impression that they were going to put Windows atop VMS

anphanax:

quote:
Microsoft wanted to further develop Windows, while IBM desired for future work to be based on OS/2. In an attempt to resolve this tension, IBM and Microsoft agreed that IBM would develop OS/2 2.0, to replace OS/2 1.3 and Windows 3.0, while Microsoft would develop a new operating system, OS/2 3.0, to later succeed OS/2 2.0.

This agreement soon however fell apart, and the Microsoft/IBM relationship was terminated. IBM continued to develop OS/2, while Microsoft changed the name of its (as yet unreleased) OS/2 3.0 to Windows NT. Both retained the rights to use OS/2 and Windows technology developed up to the termination of the agreement; Windows NT, however, was to be written anew, mostly independently (see below)...

... one of the chief architects of VMS at Digital Equipment Corporation (later purchased by Compaq, now part of Hewlett-Packard) to develop NT into a more capable operating system. Cutler had been developing a follow-on to VMS at DEC called Mica, and when DEC dropped the project he brought the expertise and some engineers with him to Microsoft. DEC also believed he brought Mica's code to Microsoft and sued. Microsoft eventually paid $150 million US and agreed to support DEC's Alpha CPU chip in NT.
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Source:
http://www.campusprogram.com/reference/en/wikipedia/h/hi/history_of_microsoft_windows.html

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