[Rustington] M$ playing catch up with Apple. Unified O/Ses

[Martin Webb]

Whilst Apple OS X PPC/x86 Operating System shares much code with their iOS
Mobile Platform Operating System to make a unified O/S..

Microsoft have had three Kernels:  MS-DOS / Windows CE / NT (aka IBM OS/2)

Considering that Windows 8 (NT6.2 Kernel) has been ported to ARM tablets,
they have also ported to create Windows (Nokia) Phone 8

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/windows-phone-8-and-windows-8-share-lots-of-code-nt-kernel

Note: anyone old enough to use NT4 may not be aware that early ARM (Risc)
CPU architecture was supported, so it has taken 20 years for M$ to catch up
fully...
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