[Scgeeks] Re: Opinion wanted on new PC

[Mark Geary]

In article <fkcce4$edi$1 at news.spamcop.net>, Ant <not at home.today> wrote:

> Win 3.x, 95, 98 and ME are all basically a fancy extension to some
> version of MS-DOS (which is the underlying operating system).
> 
> NT, which started with NT 3.0, is a completely different OS. It is
> not built upon MS-DOS. I belive the original idea was the W9x line
> was for home users but NT was for servers and corporates. Then MS
> decided that everyone would use NT and the W9x development was
> stopped.

Didn't NT start out as the next version of OS/2 before the falling out
between MS and IBM?

Mark Geary
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