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  From: Matthew Geddes <mgeddes@tellurian.com.au>
  To  : Michael Firkins <michael@home.lyppard.com.au>
  Date: 17 Jan 2003 13:05:52 +1030

Re: An interesting article :-)

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 12:31, Michael Firkins wrote:

> Hmm. Am I missing something here? What is XP based on?

Windows XP Home is based on mostly Windows 9x/3.x. Windows XP
Professional is based mostly on Windows NT (Which is also based a bit on
3.x).

Windows is doing what Unix did. There was a fork at around Windows 3.x.
This is when NT came into being and was based on a number of things
(including Lan Mangler, IIRC). The two trees were constantly looking
over each other's shoulders and borrowing features (such as the
Win95/WinNT desktop) and for a while now, Microsoft has been trying to
kill Windows 9x/ME/XPHome, but has failed so far (mostly due to games on
Windows NT/2K/XPPro, IIRC).

Matt

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