Bunk it shall be then.
I guess you missed my line saying "...if Microsoft had embraced its co-creation ...".
I'm also not at all sure that OS/2 version 2 had the hand of Microsoft in it. And it was of course the latest version of OS/2 that I was referring to, just as I would expect that if you said 'Windows is great' you would be referring to XP and not 3.1.
Windows still doesn't do intra-application security like OS/2 did. Windows still doesn't swap smartly like OS/2 did. Windows still doesn't treat files as objects, like OS/2 did.
Microsoft might have used OS/2 version 1 as the basis for NT. That still doesn't make NT anywhere near as good as OS/2 version 2 was.
Have a good Canada Day, Evan.
>>OS/2 was a great operating system - a real operating system - that essentially showed Microsoft how proper operating systems should be written.
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>OS/2 was developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM. So any goodness or badness is half Microsoft's. NT was easily as good as OS/2 since it was built on the OS/2 code base. So I respectfully, call bunk on your comments. BTW, good aftertoon. :-)
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