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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin
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Florian Weimer |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin |
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Thu, 4 Mar 2004 09:46:21 +0100 |
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Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:38:47AM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
>
> > > Well, Windows NT and descendants aren't directly derived from DOS.
> >
> > Yes, I know (although, don't they still contain some compatability
> > code or is that gone by now?).
>
> Well, NT is/was an OS/2 kernel with a Windows GUI.
Not quite correct, NT was OS/2 3.0, which was never released as OS/2.
Only in the early design phase, the system went as OS/2 3.0, before the
IBM/Microsoft schism.
> I believe the core of the OS/2 kernel was 'personalities' -- one
> personality when talking to DOS programs, one when talking to another
> class of programs, etc.
OS/2 never had such features. But NT has a hardware abstraction layer,
several core kernel services, and subsystems built on top of that.
> Hence, NT actually had fairly good compatibility with DOS programs
> because it was like an early, more tightly-integrated VMware.
This is not true, compatibility with DOS programs is extremely poor,
actually much worse than Windows 95 (or Windows 3.1).
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, (continued)
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin, Robert Collins, 2004/03/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin, Aaron Bentley, 2004/03/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin, Johannes Berg, 2004/03/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/03/03
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin,
Florian Weimer <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/03/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin, Johannes Berg, 2004/03/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin, Robert Collins, 2004/03/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin, Aaron Bentley, 2004/03/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin, Robert Collins, 2004/03/03
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin, C. R. Oldham, 2004/03/01
[Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin, John F Meinel Jr, 2004/03/02