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From: rdippold@qualcomm.com (Ron "Asbestos" Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!!
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Date: 8 Jul 93 22:02:35 GMT
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torre@dbsoftware.com (T-Rex Fodder) writes:
>The following is from Communications Week July 5, 1993 page 8.
>It is copied without permission.
>	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 

Even funnier - he also said "Windows NT will outsell those other
incompatible versions of Unix."   All unixes are now incompatible,
apparently, with WNT as the self-proclaimed unix standard.


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