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Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: Gary McNees
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 22:05
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In <41q9r5$n4g@camco.celestial.com>, bill@camco2.celestial.com (Bill Campbell) writes:
>Flightline (flightline@aol.com) wrote:
>: Why dont you guys get off off Microsofts case.  Lets not forget who
>: trained the IBM staff in 32bit OS coding.  Gee was it Microsoft.  If those
>: Beamers werent such assholes then Microsoft would've continued the
>: partnership.
>
>MS trained IBM on 32 bit OS coding?  That's the funniest thing I've
>seen in a long time.  First off, the only real Operating System that
>MS ever worked on was Xenix back around 1982 (when they got it working
>on a real 32-bit chip, the Motorola 68000).  Everything else MS had
>done is a BDPL (Brain-Damaged Program Loader).
>

>Bill
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But remember Bill, MS got the SOURCE CODE FROM AT&T FOR UNIX
and simply modified it and got it to run on some CPUs. They DID NOT
design the OS.  Also, MS did NOT DESIGN NT!  They hired DEC guys
expert in OS design to do it for them.

Gary
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From: gkm@mars.superlink.net  (Gary McNees)
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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: 27 Aug 1995 22:05:30 GMT
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