Leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoUnreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not takenarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down14cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1128arrow-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 · 4 months agomessage-square14fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squarebus_factor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months 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.