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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!world!news.kei.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!piccolo.cit.cornell.edu!crux3!qfh1 From: qfh1@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Quazi Haque) Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!! Message-ID: <qfh1.742181755@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> Sender: usenet@piccolo.cit.cornell.edu (NNTP Connect) Nntp-Posting-Host: crux3.cit.cornell.edu Organization: Cornell University References: <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com> Date: 9 Jul 93 01:35:55 GMT Lines: 25 torre@dbsoftware.com (T-Rex Fodder) writes: >The following is from Communications Week July 5, 1993 page 8. >It is copied without permission. >Now I want to know WHAT does this mean?!? > IS Gates trying to provoke USL into a lawsuit? No, he's trying to sell NT as 'all things to all people.' > Is NT UNIX?? Well, it's /supposed/ to have a Posix-compliant personality, which would make it source-compatible with Posix-compliant unix programs. I haven't tried that out, so I'll let someone else comment on how (or if) that works. As far as it being Unix... I don't think so... considering the design team's past involvement with DEC, I'd be more inclined to say NT is VMS :) . -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quazi F. Haque | "The universe is my god, and it loves me no less than qfh1@cornell.edu | all the galaxies combined and no more than an atom." -----------------------------------------------------------------------------