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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:12293 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:226 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!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!ehsn18.cen.uiuc.edu!rb6775 From: rb6775@ehsn18.cen.uiuc.edu (Rafal Krzysztof Boni) Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!! Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 17:23:31 GMT Message-ID: <CA45n7.7yu@news.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com> <qfh1.742181755@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> <1993Jul13.015546.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 27 zcookbruc@cc.curtin.edu.au writes: >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.' >I agree. Reading the original post, I got the impression that BG thought >the the kernal defined the O/S. NT does use a slightly fried MACH kernel, >but I don't think this realy gets NT qualified as a UNIX It uses the MACH model, but I don't think you could qualify it as a "slightly fried" MACH kernel. If anything, it would be a "mangled, multilated and deepfried" MACH kernel. But seriously, NT does NOT use a hacked up MACH kernel... Just a hacked up MACH kernel MODEL. [IE, they stole the microkernel idea, the environment servers, etc. but not the code] Rafal