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From: subbarao@fc.hp.com (Kartik Subbarao)
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Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!!
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Date: 8 Jul 93 18:18:31 GMT
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In article <21hnlt$sng@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com writes:
>In article 20816@dbsoftware.com, torre@dbsoftware.com (T-Rex Fodder) writes:
>...
>> CEO Bill Gates said NT is not a competitor of Unix, but in fact uses
>> the same kernel. "I think it [NT] will very quickly be the most
>> popular form of Unix out there, because we do not allow licensees to
>> change it around to try and get proprietary advantages on top of what
>> was on [[sic]] there," Gates said at last week's PC Expo in New York.
>> "NT is a form of Unix. It will not replace Unix, but I expect it
>> to be the most popular form of Unix."
>>
>>
>>Now I want to know WHAT does this mean?!?
>> IS Gates trying to provoke USL into a lawsuit?
>> Is NT UNIX??
>
>Maybe Dan Quayle was filling in for Bill that day. It sounds a lot more like
>Dan, doesn't it?
Naw. Sounds much more like his namesake in Washington.
>Or maybe that is how Bill the Gates (TM) talks. But it sure doesn't sound like
>the usual Bill Gates. He usually at least SOUNDS LIKE he knows what he's talking
>about. 8)
Exactly ;-)
-Kartik