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

[Jeff Teunissen]

Joel Ewy wrote:

[snip]

> 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.

Windows NT's original name was "OS/2 NT", and indeed you can still run
text-mode OS/2 v1.x programs on Windows XP.

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