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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!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!math.fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!henkel From: henkel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Harald Henkel) Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!! References: <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com> <qfh1.742181755@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> Originator: henkel@hphalle2b.informatik.tu-muenchen.de Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem) Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 06:23:57 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jul9.062357.15634@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> Lines: 49 In article <qfh1.742181755@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>, qfh1@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Quazi Haque) writes: |> 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 :) . |> I think, what BillyBoy was talking about is that NT has a Mach3-similar kernal, and thus a real UNIX-"shell" can (and probalbly will, at least by third parties) be easily created upon that as a subsystem like the Posix one. BTW the Posix-subsystem might really become better as time goes by. It's still all Beta. Perhaps - in some years - WinNT 4.0 (now it's WinNT 3.1) which is - I suppose - _Cairo_, will be shipped with a real Unix subsytem. We'll all see... I might be totally wrong with that... :=) Harald Henkel, student of computer sience at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Germany). P.S. NT won't sell at all, if they don't fix the backup problem. |> |> -- |> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |> 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." |> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------