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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!lynx.unm.edu!mr-hyde.aoc.nrao.edu!laphroaig!cflatter From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters) Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!! Message-ID: <1993Jul9.171052.799@mr-hyde.aoc.nrao.edu> Sender: news@mr-hyde.aoc.nrao.edu Reply-To: cflatter@nrao.edu Organization: NRAO References: <qfh1.742181755@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 93 17:10:52 GMT Lines: 28 In article 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. It will only give you POSIX.1 interfaces. You won't find a awful lot of programs that use the ANSI C library, POSIX.1 interfaces and nothing else but this is the only kind of program that will run unchanged in the WNT POSIX-subsystem. Microsoft appear to have no plans to extend the POSIX subsystem. POSIX.1 compatibility alone does not make a system UNIX. OpenVMS comes a lot closer with both POSIX.1 and POSIX.2/2a but still wouldn't qualify. Chris Flatters cflatter@nrao.edu