Rustmilian to linuxmemesEnglish · 11 months agoWhy is Windows "PC"?external-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1598arrow-down164
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minus-squaredezmdlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months ago NT was written from scratch You mean OS/2 3.0? When development started in November 1989, Windows NT was to be known as OS/2 3.0, the third version of the operating system developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
minus-squarethe_crotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoNo, I mean NT. Why would I use a pre-releaee name from 30 years ago?
minus-squaredezmdlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 months agoIt was a tongue in cheek joke, calm yourself, this isnt reddit. But it’s also a valid, if cheeky, point that it wasnt really a fresh from scratch effort.
You mean OS/2 3.0?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
No, I mean NT. Why would I use a pre-releaee name from 30 years ago?
It was a tongue in cheek joke, calm yourself, this isnt reddit.
But it’s also a valid, if cheeky, point that it wasnt really a fresh from scratch effort.