In seven pages the development of such computer operating systems as Linux, Microsoft NT, Novell, and Unix among others are examined. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography.
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mentioned including Unix, Novell, Microsoft NT, Linux and others. DOS Tim Paterson was one of the original authors of DOS and it had over 4000 lines of
assembler. When it was purchased by IBM it was found to have over 300 bugs in the system so much of the code was re-written. It was Microsoft
that was commissioned by IBM to re-write the operating system. Back then Microsoft was mainly a programming system company. The original DOS had just one root directory rather
than the many sub-directories that many of us are now used to. It was DOS that was virtually the operating system on every IBM computer. This was until
Microsoft decided to get into the development of the Microsoft Windows. The rest, as they say, is history. NOVELL Novell, after going through much anguish and causing
its customers much consternation, went from the NetWare Web Server (They included it free with NetWare. Early versions of the NetWare Web Server were no better than the free NCSA
web server but it quickly gained additional features such as the ability to support multiple virtual hosts) (History of Novell 2002). While it could "serve up web pages for
multiple domains such as www.abc.com, www.def.com" (2002, PG) Netscapes FastTrack server couldnt do these things. Apache is now Novells only netserver (owned by America Online) (History of Novell 2002).
MICROSOFT NT AND UNIX At the very beginning of the server war nearly two and a half years ago, Microsoft Corp. introduced Windows NT as a direct competitor
of the ever-popular Unix system. Vendors that distributed Unix were amused by the so-called competition, labeling it "too immature" (Garner, 1996, p. 19) to ever establish itself in the