Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:38:22 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> Cc: Randall Senn <randall_senn@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, webmaster@linux.org, www@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Unix vs unix-like and unix-type Message-ID: <19990206173822.J79703@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <051001be519e$66955d60$ed3ce4cf@danco.home>; from Dan O'Connor on Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:00:36PM -0800 References: <051001be519e$66955d60$ed3ce4cf@danco.home>
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On Friday, 5 February 1999 at 23:00:36 -0800, Dan O'Connor wrote: >> Microsoft's "NT" environment is UNIX. > > A friend of mine was also told this at an IBM point-of-sale system AIX > seminar. Do you know of any documentation on this? I can't find anywhere > where Microsoft admits to NT be derived from Unix. NT is very definitely *not* UNIX, and it's not derived from it. But it passes the specification for UNIX 95%. That's the point I was making. I don't know where to find that, but you might try snooping around the OpenGroup's web pages. > When hard drive support was added to PC-DOS, Microsoft incorporated more > Unix-like commands (albeit with a renegade \ directory delimiter and a / > switch character), but I've never seen anything suggesting NT (ne-OS/2) > *was* Unix. No, NT has nothing to do with OS/2. They gave OS/2 up as a bad job (presumably from a marketing point of view) and got a guy in from DEC who had been working with a successor to VMS (take the next letter for each of the initials and you get WNT :-). > If it is, it begs the question: Why is NT less stable and less > robust than Unix? If it isn't, it still begs that question. Even given the fact that Microsoft doesn't have to care, I can't understand it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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