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From: "L. Scott Emmons" <scotte@center.uscs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 08:29:12 -0700
Organization: CableData R&D Center, El Dorado Hills, CA, USA
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To: Steve Gailey <steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk>
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Steve Gailey wrote:
>
> I think that NT owes more to VMS kernel design than it does to MACH. It
> certainly is nothing like MACH 2.5 which is what Nextstep is.
Absolutely. Didn't one of the main VMS guys go to work on the NT kernel?
I seriously doubt it is very much like Unix. The last version of OS/2 I
worked on (1.3) obviously borrowed some from Unix (for example there was
a hidden "/dev" directory, among many other interesting things), but
OS/2 and NT are now quite different beasts, despite originally being a
joint IBM/Microsoft project. I remember seing some of the early OS/2
manuals which had a great quote by Bill Gates where he stated that OS/2
was the future of computing. I sure wish I photocopied that page.
Also, did you ever notice that if you increment by one each of the
letters in
VMS you get WNT? Is it coincidence? :-) :-)
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L. Scott Emmons | CableData R&D Center - El Dorado Hills, CA, USA
Sr. Software Engineer | Systems Group, Systems Development Dept
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