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Re:Rust for Windows by kyberias on Friday January 22, 2021 @10:39AM (#25872539)
Explain how it was like that in the case of NT.

IBM went their own way with OS/2 and Microsoft hired Dave Cutler from Digital to develop NT over several years. Windows NT is not OS/2. It never was.

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Re:Rust for Windows by 29athrowaway on Friday January 22, 2021 @08:32PM (#25878648)
That is a mischaracterization of what happened.

Microsoft unilaterally changed the OS/2 3.0 API to the match the Windows API, IBM did not approve of that, and then the project split, with the Microsoft version of OS/2 3.0 becoming Windows NT.

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