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  From: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@mmc.com.au>
  To  : Matthew Geddes <mgeddes@tellurian.com.au>
  Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:16:36 +1030 (CST)

Re: An interesting article :-)

> > 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).

Uh, XP home = XP Pro with some modified registry settings.  They're exactly 
based on the same thing.

MMC

> 
> 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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