[Info-vax] Comparison of vendor support for OSes vs VMS (5.5-2)?

[Camiel]

On Aug 16, 12:45 am, John Wallace <johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> You can find similar info for other MS client products at [2]. It goes
> no further back than Windows 3.1, so presumably there wasn't really
> any Windows in 1991. However, the Wikipedia article on Windows 2.0
> says it was released Nov 1987 and support ended at the end of 2001, to
> which I say "citation necessary". It wasn't as though anyone ever used
> Windows 2.0 or even 3.0 anyway.

Sure there was Windows before version 3.0.

It was Windows 2.1, which was delivered with my dad's brand spanking
new 386 in '88 or '89, that prompted me to venture into systems
programming. I was so thoroughly disappointed with its multitasking
capabilities, that I spent a lot of time writing my own micro-kernel
based O/S, where I could run the three apps I developed (compiler,
assembler, text editor) simultaneously. It never went anywhere beyond
my house, of course, but I learned a lot from it.

Cheers,
Camiel.