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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!yale!spock!roland
- From: roland@spock.uucp (David A. Braun)
- Subject: Re: What I heard from Microsoft about NT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.173659.22724@spock.UUCP>
- Sender: usenet@spock.UUCP (Usenet posting daemon)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: roll
- Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:36:59 GMT
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- >Unless NT is based on a hack of BSD4, why should we allow MS to start
- >at 3.1, while the rest of the industry has the guts to start at the
- >beginning?
-
- What makes you think the rest of the industry starts at the beginning?
- Do you recall a Lotus 000 through Lotus 122, for example? :-)
-
- Also, the OS 9 people seemed to jump right in at 9 (that's because OS 9
- was meant for the 6809, I believe).
-
- Software I'm working on now is jumping from 1.6 to 3.0 without stopping
- at 2.x. (We are doing that because 1.6 was based on revision 1.6 of a
- specification document, and 3.0 is based on revision 3.0 of that document.
- We didn't implement a version that matched 2.x of the document, so we
- aren't naming any of our versions 2.x)
-
- For real confusion over versions, try to figure out which Unix goes
- where. Let's see...32 > 5, so Unix 32V came after System V. No?
- Well, BSD4 came before 7th Edition, right? No? Aaarrrgggghhhh!!!! :-)
-
- How about Autocad which went fron version 2 (or was it 3) to release 9!
- But seriously, be fair, they are just trying to show the user a connection
- from their DOS shell to their new OS...
-
- Roland.
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