On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2023 07 Jul 08:13 -0500, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > My error: > > > > I should have said > > > > "Linux is a clone of Unix so a derivative. MS is also a derivative but not > > much like Unix. " > > If you mean MS Windows NT and later, it apparently owes much to VMS and > OS/2. Certainly, some POSIX support was added along the way as well, > but I don't think that other than market speak 20+ years ago, Windows > NT+ was intended to be a Unix implementation.
Right: NT (and NTFS) was brought over from DEC by Dave Cutler (yet another thing Microsoft didn't invent). And Cutler *hated* UNIX. So he might get angry if someone compares NT to UNIX :-) NT was micro-kernel-ish (actually inspired by Mach, so it shares some ancestry with OS/X and Hurd), until Microsoft dumped all that graphic goodnes into it. Thr rest, is, as they say... Cheers -- t
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