Posts by martinot

It's 30 years ago: IBM's final battle with reality

Re: Too much credit

"OS/2 Warp was a better design in many ways than NT 3.51, but IBM's head start didn't help them win the race, and now we all run Windows NT on our PCs."

I used both OS/2 2.11/Warp3 and NT 3.5/3.51/4 at the time (and FreeBSD). From a technical point I thin NT was way better designed (more stable, more future proof, scalable, etc.) than OS/2, but what I think OS/2 shined in was running DOS (NT was designed more for future tech than past tech) and WPS really much better than NT (at least before the Win95 GUI come to NT with NT4).

Re: Interesting times

"Even as late as when the started work on Windows NT the Intel PC was not suitable for developing it. It was done on MIPS workstations and later ported to x86."

According to Cutler and other NT managers this (development on machines running Windows NT on MIPS) was a conscious decision by them to ensure that NT was portable and platform neutral, and not locked into x86 code.

Re: Interesting times

"After all, OS/2 did TCP/IP long before Windows had a stable IP stack supported by the manufacturer (yes, yes, there was Trumpet WinSock and Chameleon TCP/IP but they were not from Microsoft and MS refused to support them)."

Not true.

For OS/2 2.11, and also later on with Warp 3, I had to get a separate TCP/IP product, but right from the start I had it in build in with first version of Windows NT (3.1 and forward).

It was not until I got OS/2 Warp Connect that was the first OS/2 product to ship with TCP/IP it build in from start in the OS (even that a bit more separate install and not as fully integrated as on Windows NT).

Windows NT 3.1 was released in July, 1993. OS/2 Warp Connect was released in May, 1995.