Leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoUnreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not takenarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1139arrow-down15cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1134arrow-down1external-linkUnreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not takenarstechnica.comLeo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square14fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.org
minus-squarebus_factor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoWindows NT came out of the failed collaboration with IBM and was originally meant to be OS/2 3.0. MS switched the APIs from OS/2 compatible to Windows compatible after Windows 3.0 took off, and it caused the collaboration to fall apart.
Windows NT came out of the failed collaboration with IBM and was originally meant to be OS/2 3.0. MS switched the APIs from OS/2 compatible to Windows compatible after Windows 3.0 took off, and it caused the collaboration to fall apart.