FT> If I'm not mistaken, NT was developped by the people who did HPFS in the 
 FT> first place... If I remember it well, HPFS was 
 FT> originally developped by Microsoft during the joint 

MS's Gordon Letwin wrote HPFS (in .286p assembly!).  I debuted in OS/2 1.2
(it was included with an earlier version of MS Lan Manager before that
though).

 FT> programs and HPFS, and why MSC supports OS/2 'up to 
 FT> 5.1 if my memory serves me).(It may be what you mean

MS C 6.0 supports OS/2.  There was also an unreleased OS/2-32bit "MS C
6.5", that is hidden away on the IBM DDK cdrom.

A _really_ funny thing:  MS was developing MS C 7.0 when the
"split" happened;  the beta of MS C 7.0 _only_ ran under OS/2
(they were still trying to make it 'fit' in dos);  when MS C 7.0 was
released,  it would did not support OS/2.

 FT> The os/2 2.0 was a large rewrite to make OS/2 32 bit, 
 FT> and Microsoft no longer had acces to that code.

MS and IBM developed 2.0 together (I have of a beta of 2.0 that actually
came from MS).  MS has (and can use) the code, including SOM and WPS,from
OS/2 2.0.  The split occurred during the development of 2.0.


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