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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!walter!qualcom.qualcomm.com!happy!rdippold 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!!! Message-ID: <rdippold.742168955@happy> Date: 8 Jul 93 22:02:35 GMT References: <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com> Sender: news@qualcomm.com Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA Lines: 15 Originator: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com Nntp-Posting-Host: qualcom.qualcomm.com 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. -- The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.