Re: IT and UNIX

[James Jones <jejones@microware.com>]

  Professor Jordan B. Pollack writes:
  >But the mystery is: Why didn't makers of other operating systems -
  >OS/2 Solaris, MacOS, IRIX, Ultrix, Linux - evolve to the pentium and
  >pentium pro box and provide the api to run windows apps within
  >their own environment?
  
  OS/2 did--and after that, Win32s 1.3 came out which introduced incompatibillty.
  One can often see claims that that was the main purpose of Win32s 1.3.
  
  	James Jones
  
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