Re: "the two flavours of OS/2"

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From: Jorge O. Castro
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 00:00

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In <NEWTNews.23697.796773750.mikew@ausnet.world.net>, mikew@ausnet.world.net writes:
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>From February's "Byte"...
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>"Warp, once known as OS/2 For Windows, requires that you have your own version 
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>of Windows running before you install it.  Borg, also known as plain OS/2, is 
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>larger than Warp, and embedded within it is Win-OS2..."
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>"Borg" ???  Could the author possibly mean the Blue Box ?? ;-)
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>Mike Walton.  mikew@ausnet.world.net

Yes he does ... He's using the code names that IBM uses for OS/2.
According to OS/2 Magazine December 94,
Os/2 2.1 for Win was called "Ferengi", while OS/2 2.1 was "Borg"
OS/2 1.1 was called "Trimaran", v1.2 "Sloop", v1.3 "Cutter",
v 2.0 "Cruiser", and finally v3.0 "Warp" ....


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From: studentc.msu.edu@studentc.msu.edu       (Jorge O. Castro)
Subject: Re: "the two flavours of OS/2"
Date: 1995/04/01
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