[geeks] Google announces Google Chrome OS

[Nate]

On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Because most of the interesting things that the kernel supports MS has
> either hidden from users or actually not made any effective use of at
> all, while far too many of the legacy DOS limitations are still  
> hanging
> around.

Yes.

NT was directly derived from VMS, and Microsoft ended up paying  
Digital between 65 and 100 million because of that.  If any of you  
haven't read this, I do recommend it:

http://www.krsaborio.net/research/1990s/98/12_b.htm

The OS/2 personality was originally going to be the predominant  
personality of NT, and even remained present up until Windows 2000  
(just check the \WINNT\system32\os2\ directory!)

And if you're wondering how in the world WIN32 has come to dominant  
the entire market when OS/2 was the future of Microsoft at one point  
you have pretty much one person to thank for that - David Weise.  In  
case you don't know about how he changed the course of computing  
history and made Microsoft billions, read this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2005/02/02/365635.aspx

Oh how history hinges on such tiny events...

- Nate