Comment Re:Who cares. (Score 1) 378
I honestly dont know.. but maybe someone can asnwer... was microsoft and ibm working on the os/2 3.0 code when microsoft split? If so.. they probably descided that their os should have the version 3.5, being that its 'better'. (In microsofts eyes, owned by microsoft means better.)
Either that, or they named it 3.5 because the non NT version of windows was 3.1 or so at the time?
Actually I think NT was supposed to replace windows back in those days.. but microsoft just couldnt get the market to bite (for whatever reason), and ended up... makeing do... (instability in NT? incompadible with most dos stuff?) They have been saying for years that NT was going to replace windows in the NT 4.0/Win 2000 days... guess we had to wait for XP =)
Either that, or they named it 3.5 because the non NT version of windows was 3.1 or so at the time?
Actually I think NT was supposed to replace windows back in those days.. but microsoft just couldnt get the market to bite (for whatever reason), and ended up... makeing do... (instability in NT? incompadible with most dos stuff?) They have been saying for years that NT was going to replace windows in the NT 4.0/Win 2000 days... guess we had to wait for XP =)
