[Coco] Microsoft files for patent on "modular operating system"

[Joel Ewy]

Dan Olson wrote:
>> All of Windows from 1.0 through ME with the exception fo NT3.1 through XP are
>> built on a DOS OS.  In some aspects that could be considered an operating
>> environment while DOS was the true OS. NT3.1, including its decendant XP, was
>> influenced by Vax VMS OS. WIndoze NT3.1 was really MS first true windowing
>> OS that was not an overlay onto MS DOS. XP is the merging of the DOS based
>> systems with the old VMS influenced original OS.
>>     
>
> I may not know my history very well, but I thought NT was based on OS/2 
> *and* I thought OS/2 was Microsoft's first true windowing OS.  True, it 
> was a joint deal with IBM, but Microsoft was heavly involved.  If true, I 
> suppose if anything OS/2 was a stepping stone between VMS and NT.  Anyone 
> know more?
>
>  	Dan
>
>   
Actually, though M'Soft did originally work with IBM on OS/2, they
backed out and started working on NT instead.  As far as I know, NT is
really almost completely unrelated to OS/2 on a technical level.

JCE