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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by zardoz</i> <br /> <br />You are fortunate that you have the knowledge to avoid microsoft junk. I have never had the opportunity to learn any other OS, so I'm rather stuck in Windows. 2000 isn't too bad, though. To me, it seems to be about the best they have offered. <br /> <br />DOS; now there was an nice operating system! <br /> <br />And remember BASIC? Ah, those were the days....... <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Little known fact: the underlying framework of the operating system (kernel etc) for Win NT 3.51, NT4, Win2000, and Win Xp are all derived from OS/2, back when MS and IBM were joint venturing. They were working on a "portable" version of OS/2, targeted at the "Power pc" and VMS platforms, which, the codebase was given to MS as part of the divorce settlement. So, when people say "Windows won the operating system war" They really couldn''t be more wrong. "Windows" (the true 'windows") died with Windows Me...
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