RE: IBM loses its Unix license - Jun. 16, 2003

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   2. RE: IBM loses its Unix license - Jun. 16, 2003 (PaulMmn)
>
>  As I understand it, OS/2 
>was developed by IBM, who contracted Microsoft to do the programming. 
>Bill Gates pulled a shrewd one, and retained rights to the program 
>once delivered to IBM.  OS/2 languished under IBM's marketing 
>department; it became the core for Microsoft Windows/NT.

In short, it does seem that MS wrote large parts of OS/2 at least up to Version 
2 and retained various rights to some of the critical code; but I'm not clear 
on how much of OS/2 became part of WinNT's core.

Even WinXP still misses a couple of the nicer features although it's _finally_ 
caught up to parts of how references to objects were handled in OS/2 -- you can 
now move an object referenced by a shortcut and WinXP won't pop up the "Missing 
shortcut: Windows is searching for..." message box when you double-click the 
old shortcut. That's irritated me for years.

Now if they'd just provide a desktop object like OS/2's 'program object', I'd 
almost be happy. (Or have they?) These could often be used similar to command 
objects at a command line in OS/400 except they provided parameter prompting on 
the desktop.

Sheesh... after so many years and _still_ looking for features.

Tom Liotta

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