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From: mike@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (Michael Chapman)
Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!!
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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1993 05:08:26 GMT
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In article <1993Jul09.195833.14745@news.mentorg.com> kendall_auel@mentorg.com writes:
>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???

Does it use Mach?  Mach isn't Unix.

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  Mike Chapman  mike@hopper.acs.virginia.edu   uunet!virginia!doxy!mike
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