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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!news.mentorg.com!kauel From: kauel@mentorg.com (Kendall Auel) Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!! Sender: news@news.mentorg.com (News User) Message-ID: <1993Jul09.195833.14745@news.mentorg.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1993 19:58:33 GMT Reply-To: kendall_auel@mentorg.com References: <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: sunflare.mentorg.com Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation Keywords: Followup-To: Lines: 24 In article <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com>, torre@dbsoftware.com (T-Rex Fodder) writes: |> The following is from Communications Week July 5, 1993 page 8. |> It is copied without permission. |> |> UNIX IN NT'S CLOTHING In his latest positioning statement on |> Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT operating system, company chairman and |> CEO Bill Gates said NT is not a competitor of Unix, but in fact uses |> the same kernel. Check out the chapter on the "Kernel" in _Inside_Windows_NT_. The introduction does a pretty good job of bashing UNIX, and claiming that NT will avoid all those problems that UNIX has. What are we supposed to think about NT now that we know it actually has one of those horrible problem-ridden UNIX Kernels??? :-) -- Kendall Auel -- Mentor Graphics Corporation kendall_auel@mentorg.com (503) 685-7000 x2853 [ The fact that I have no standard disclaimer in my ] [ signature should in no way be construed to mean ] [ that I am not disclaiming anything (or should that ] [ be that I am claiming anything?). I'm not. ]