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From: yseeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Yonik Christopher Seeley)
Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!!
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 04:49:26 GMT
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In article <nagleCA6pqt.J1z@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
>torre@dbsoftware.com (T-Rex Fodder) writes:
>>Now I want to know WHAT does this mean?!?
>>	Is NT UNIX??
>
>       What it seems to mean is that NT will run most POSIX-compliant
>character-based UNIX programs recompiled for NT.  This is useful,
>but not thrilling.  You'll be able to run lots of pre-window UNIX
>software, if you have source.  Presumably most of the GNU tools will,
>with some effort, work.  
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
With some effort, many of the GNU utilities have been ported to
DOS also ;-)

>
>					John Nagle

- Yonik Seeley
yseeley@cs.stanford.edu