From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 09:42:36 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Why BSD didn't catch on more, and Linux did In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 7 February 2018 at 03:27, Wesley Parish wrote: > OS/2 and Windows (including WinNT 3.x) just > added a pretty-pretty interface. OS/2 was more sophisticated than > WinNT's because OS/2 expected to share the hard drive with some other > OS; Microsoft believed it had the computer to itself and is thus not > as sophisticated - but they're still MS/PC/DR DOS writ large. I would disagree with this assessment. NT's VMS heritage has already been discussed. I do not know the heritage of OS/2 but to call it DOS is simply not true. (Among other things, OS/2 did an excellent job of virtualizing dosboxes. We were developing PCMCIA drivers with OS/2 in dosboxes. When one crashed, you simply opened up another and continued.) N.