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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!rutgers!princeton!tex.Princeton.EDU!subbarao From: subbarao@fc.hp.com (Kartik Subbarao) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!! Message-ID: <1993Jul8.181831.28406@Princeton.EDU> Date: 8 Jul 93 18:18:31 GMT References: <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com> <21hnlt$sng@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Reply-To: subbarao@fc.hp.com Organization: putchar('I'); for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) putchar('E'); Lines: 28 Originator: news@nimaster Nntp-Posting-Host: tex.princeton.edu In article <21hnlt$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