Re: The future of computing

["James W. Kilgore" <eMail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charly,

I really liked the part about "a later version" that would run on 64 bit
machines!

Isn't vaporware what got IBM (S/360 DOS) and MS into hot water with the
justice department?

I hugged my OS/2 stuff when you state "NT code base" because it did
-NOT- say "NT based code". :)

Charly Jones wrote:
> 
> Microsoft is so easy to bash.  Here is what they say about their
> own operating systems:  they aren't "real" (only Windows XP is a
> "real" operating system...
> 
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5567520.html?tag=rltdnws
> 
> Microsoft declares a "war on hostile code"
> 
<<snip>>
> 
> Retiring the old Windows code--upon which Windows 95, 98 and Me are
> based--is the first step toward securing the PC. Or, as Lipner put it,
> "(Windows XP) is based on the Windows NT code base--it's a real operating
> system."
>
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